Chris Field
Lead Engineer at Rare Ltd
Lichfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Field is a lead software engineer based in Lichfield with over two decades of professional experience and more than a decade focused on web and services engineering. He currently leads Rare’s web and UI teams for Sea of Thieves, combining hands-on C#, React, Azure and PlayFab development with line management, mentoring and cross-team collaboration inside Microsoft. Chris has a strong track record delivering high-scale, customer-facing sites and internal tooling while ensuring accessibility, privacy and security compliance across codebases. He brings deep .NET architecture and integration experience from diverse industries—gaming, insurance, public sector and retail—and has repeatedly modernised legacy systems into maintainable, test-driven platforms. Comfortable across full-stack concerns, he also builds CI/CD and operational solutions (Azure DevOps, Kusto) that keep live services resilient as games evolve. An unusually broad mix of hands-on engineering, team leadership and long-term ownership makes him a reliable bridge between product, support and security needs.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Handsworth Grammar SchooComputer Science, Computer Science at De Montfort University
English
Github Skills (68)
mongodb9
javascript8
rss8
arcade8
rss-reader8
python8
reader8
game-development8
postgresql8
css8
redis8
updater8
tiger8
android8
680007
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ctafield/aoc2020
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
ctafield/aoc2021
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Advent of Code 2021
Contributions:22 PRs, 14 pushes, 21 branches in 2 days
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