Chris Hart-walker is a Technical Lead with a decade of software experience, specialising in Scala Play full-stack development while also having hands-on work in native iOS, React Native, Java, NodeJS and Terraform. He leads delivery from development through production—building CI pipelines with Jenkins, implementing monitoring with Kibana/Grafana, and driving integration and acceptance testing using Wiremock and Mockito. A collaborative mentor and community advocate, he regularly presents internal seminars on topics like Scala libraries, logging, and readable integration test DSLs to help onboard and upskill engineers. Based in Lichfield, he combines practical engineering with developer enablement—currently building an onboarding-focused frontend tool to accelerate new starter productivity.
10 years of coding experience
OCR Nationals Level 3 ICT Extended Diploma, Information Technology, Distinction, OCR Nationals Level 3 ICT Extended Diploma, Information Technology, Distinction at Thomas Alleynes High School, Uttoxeter
Bachelor's Degree, IT for Creative Industries, 2:2, Bachelor's Degree, IT for Creative Industries, 2:2 at Lancaster University
Contributions:16 commits, 15 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 months
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