Chris Ford
Technology Director Retail, Consumer, Travel & Transportation
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Ford is a seasoned technology director and consultant with 14 years of experience helping organisations across Europe, the US, India and Africa improve software delivery, currently leading Thoughtworks’ Retail, Consumer, Travel & Transportation practice in Europe from Barcelona. He combines hands-on engineering and program leadership with product and strategy acumen, having scaled a regional business fourfold as Head of Technology and advised global CTOs on technology direction. A prominent speaker and writer on functional programming and agile practices, Chris is equally comfortable mentoring distributed teams and driving complex modernisation programmes. His open-source contributions—ranging from documentation and cross-language example integration to code refinements on projects like the collaborative music platform Overtone—reflect a practical, detail-oriented approach to maintaining healthy codebases. With a dual background in software engineering and English literature from the University of Melbourne, he brings both technical depth and clear communication to knotty problems at the intersection of business and technology.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
german b1 proficiency, English
Github Skills (6)
clojure10
clojure-cli10
supercollider9
code-formatting8
documentation7
git6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
overtone/overtone
Oct 2011 - Dec 2012
Collaborative Programmable Music
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the Overtone project by fixing spelling errors and formatting issues within the codebase. They also updated and merged external contributions, including examples from SuperCollider, demonstrating an understanding of integrating different code contributions. Furthermore, the user addressed code-related typos, refined documentation, and made improvements to existing functions. These changes suggest the user worked across multiple parts of the codebase.
musiccollaborativeprogrammable
ctford/dueling-keyboards
Nov 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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