Chris Finch
Sr Manager, Software Development Engineering at Workday
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Finch is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling high-performance frontend and full-stack web teams for top media and cloud companies. Currently a Sr Manager at Workday, he has led distributed teams at AWS and elsewhere to deliver real-time, customer-facing web applications and Agentic AI services, while owning frontend architecture and performance. A hands-on client-side architect and former Senior Frontend Engineer, he combines deep TypeScript/React expertise with secondary backend experience in Java, Scala, Ruby and AWS. He’s repeatedly shipped UIs that serve millions of users and mentors engineers to raise product quality and delivery velocity. Based in North Vancouver, he also runs a long-running freelance studio, demonstrating an enduring mix of consultancy agility and enterprise leadership. An early background in multimedia and R&D (BBC, Guardian) gives him a practical edge in UX-aware engineering decisions.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
A - Levels and GCSE, English, Math, Biology, Physics, Chemisty, Art, ICT and Sport, A - Levels and GCSE, English, Math, Biology, Physics, Chemisty, Art, ICT and Sport at Brighton CollegeBa Hons, Computing and Film, Ba Hons, Computing and Film at University of Kent
English
Stackoverflow
479reputation
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Github Skills (177)
autocomplete10
guardian10
sdk10
router10
react10
javascript9
dynamodb9
expressjs9
infinite-scroll9
sentry9
declarative9
effector9
react-native9
ios9
frontend9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/about-to-be-published
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 88 pushes, 10 branches in 6 months
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chrisfinch/svg-to-json
Jun 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 11 months
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