Summary
Chris Farrugia is a pragmatic senior software engineer with 10+ years’ experience designing and shipping backend services and APIs, currently leading Services & APIs work at Tide. He has deep Java and distributed-systems experience across fintech and betting platforms, having built low-latency trading tools, large-scale casino integrations, and production chat-bot ecosystems. A hands-on agile advocate and former team lead, he combines ownership of end-to-end delivery with practical engineering trade-offs to keep quality high and velocity steady. Based in England, he balances technical focus with collaboration and product-minded engineering, and outside work he’s a foodie and occasional photographer—traits that hint at a practical eye for detail and user experience.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Junior College, Malta
BSc.IT, Computer Science and AI, BSc.IT, Computer Science and AI at L-Università ta' Malta
English, Maltese, Italian