Chris Howe-jones
CTO (Fractional) at RedKangaroo®
Sunderland, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Howe-jones is a seasoned software architect and fractional CTO with over 35 years of experience designing and building distributed systems across banks, startups and healthcare. He combines hands-on expertise in JVM languages (Java, Clojure, Scala) and functional programming with practical system design using Kafka, GraphQL, AWS and container platforms. As a long-time advocate of software craftsmanship and lean/agile practices, he regularly coaches teams to improve delivery, testing and architecture at scale. He has led migrations to CQRS/event-driven architectures, simplified complex data ingestion platforms, and brought pragmatic patterns for testing microservices into production. Currently fractional CTO at RK360 Health and founder of DevCycle, he blends technical leadership with day-to-day coding and occasional road cycling to keep perspective. A habitual follower of software fashions, he balances curiosity for new tools with deep, battle-tested engineering judgment.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A levels, Biology, Chemisty, Computer Science, A levels, Biology, Chemisty, Computer Science at Cambridge College of Arts and TechnologyB.A. Hons, Data Processing, B.A. Hons, Data Processing at University of SunderlandWitchford Village College
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Github Skills (69)
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github-pages10
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emacs-lisp9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chrishowejones/film-ratings
Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
Film ratings Clojure web app using Duct
Contributions:48 releases, 75 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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devcycle/devcycle.github.io
Jul 2016 - Mar 2024
DevCycle's company website.
Contributions:5 reviews, 11 PRs, 131 pushes in 7 years 8 months
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