Chris Gearing
Principal Software Engineer at Turner & Townsend
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Gearing is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with a decade of hands-on experience specializing in application integration and multi-OS delivery. He has risen through successive engineering and lead roles at Turner & Townsend, consistently delivering integration projects on time while bridging software and 1st-line hardware support. Comfortable across the stack, Chris combines practical support experience with architecture-level thinking to reduce operational friction and accelerate deployments. His background in IT support and estates operations gives him a pragmatic, user-focused perspective on system reliability and maintainability. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex integration requirements into robust, auditable solutions across diverse enterprise applications. Unusually for an engineer, his formal training in music informs a disciplined, pattern-oriented approach to problem solving and collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A Level Biology Chemistry Physics Drama Music, A Level Biology Chemistry Physics Drama Music at Truro and Penwith CollegeBachelor of Music, Bachelor of Music at University of West London
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Github Skills (59)
appserver9
sqlalchemy9
flask9
nginx-unit9
versioning8
openapi8
python8
falcon8
annotations8
pydantic-v28
runtimes8
programming-language7
full-stack7
azure-functions7
swagger7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
turner-townsend/genyrator
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
a tool for generating a flask web app from an abstract definition
Contributions:8 reviews, 19 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pythonflaskflask-webdefinitionflask-extensions
turner-townsend/flask-pydantic-spec
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
An Flask OpenAPI library using Pydantic
Contributions:23 releases, 28 reviews, 87 commits in 2 years 3 months
flaskopenapipydantic
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