Chris Jenkins
Software Engineer at Icon Solutions
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Jenkins is a senior software engineer based in London with 15 years of experience building and running backend systems, platform services, and developer tooling. He has led multinational teams, mentored engineers, and served as an incident manager, combining hands-on coding (Java/Kotlin, Kafka, AWS, Spring) with process design to improve reliability and delivery velocity. At Masabi he architected API-to-Kafka bridges, GTFS-like data pipelines for complex ticketing, and remote key injection for validation devices—work that blends distributed systems thinking with pragmatic operational concerns. Comfortable moving between individual contributor and tech-lead roles, he focuses on measurable SLOs, performance engineering, and automating CI/CD to replace long manual processes. He values psychologically safe teams that own the full value stream and consistently ship business value. A first-class Computer Science graduate, he quietly bridges legacy systems and modern microservices while maintaining a strong emphasis on observability and blameless incident learning.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (1st class honours) Computer Science, BSc (1st class honours) Computer Science at University of Warwick
Github Skills (15)
war9
testing9
hosting9
craftcms9
leiningen9
ring9
virtualbox7
planet7
sourceforge5
virtual-machine5
clojure5
falcon5
trunk3
clojurescript3
linux2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cdpjenkins/advent-of-code
Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:222 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 11 months
cdpjenkins/emacs.d
Jan 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:5 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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