Chris Hutchinson
Chief Technology Officer at Hutora
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hutchinson is a pragmatic engineering leader and current Chief Technology Officer with 13 years of experience building product-focused teams across publishing, public sector, consultancy and education. He excels at turning complex organisational needs into empowered, high-performing engineering cultures that let individuals do their best work. Hands-on throughout his career, Chris has shipped frontend features and tooling—such as a configurable web image editor (cardkit) where he implemented SVG-building, image/text editors and advanced layer filtering. He brings a strong newsroom-to-startup pedigree from roles at The Times, News UK, Made Tech and Learnerbly, combining editorial sensitivity with robust technical delivery. Based in Edinburgh, he champions practical AI-era transformation at Hutora, connecting people and business data to improve talent decisions. Outside work he writes software for food, reflecting a playful curiosity that fuels his side projects and problem-solving approach.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Geography & Urban and Regional Planning, BSc Geography & Urban and Regional Planning at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (8)
css10
uid10
image-editing10
javascript10
svg10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrishutchinson/cardkit
Oct 2014 - Jun 2021
A simple, powerful and fully configurable image editor for web browsers and servers. Optional UI included.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 148 commits, 49 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project. They implemented a Snap.svg directive and improved the configuration for automatically building the SVG. They also added functionality such as image and text editors, along with the ability to customize image output scale and the addition of CSS styles. Additionally, the user made efforts to incorporate more advanced filtering capabilities to image layers.
browsersimageconfigurableimage-editor
times/acf-to-wp-api
Sep 2014 - Apr 2017
Puts all ACF fields from posts, pages, custom post types, attachments and taxonomy terms, into the WP-API output under the 'acf' key
Contributions:5 releases, 22 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 7 months
apitaxonomy-termswordpress-apiwordpresscustom-pages
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