Chris Jewell
Engineering Manager at Heidi Health
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorChris Jewell is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building platform, product, and application security teams, currently leading engineering at Heidi Health from Melbourne. He has progressed from hands-on backend development in Ruby on Rails to founding and scaling platform and AppSec practices at HotDoc, delivering OAuth2, MFA, and SSDLC improvements. Known for pragmatic, empathetic leadership, he focuses on high-trust teams, coaching, and quietly removing roadblocks so engineers can do their best work. Chris has led cross-functional SRE, integration, and platform engineers, owned incident management and operational excellence, and introduced Shape Up-inspired planning across teams. He pairs technical depth in secure systems with operational rigor—designing on-call processes, vulnerability tracking, and training programs that scale. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful mentorship and practical solutions that balance speed, reliability, and security.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BoxedWineAppreciationSociety/YFFAndroid
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:103 commits, 50 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 1 month
knightstick/coin_flip_betting_game
May 2019 - Aug 2020
Like twos-up, but with one coin - now in Elixir!
Contributions:15 PRs, 19 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 2 months
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