Summary
Chris Grimble is a engineering director with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, microservice-driven systems for government, finance, and energy sectors. He champions test-driven development, continuous delivery, and empowered teams, and has repeatedly turned complex regulatory and high-throughput requirements into reliable, continuously releasable platforms. His background spans Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, and AWS/Azure with practical experience embedding security and GitOps into CI/CD pipelines. Chris has led integration patterns and reusable libraries at enterprise scale, mentored teams through operating-model changes, and taken responsibility for line management and stakeholder engagement. Notably, he’s delivered data-sharing and trust frameworks for net-zero energy pilots and modernised risk and payment systems for major public and financial organisations. Based in Elmbridge, UK, he combines steady technical leadership with a preference for pragmatic, customer-feedback-driven delivery.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Software Engineering at The University of Sheffield