Chris Johns
Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Johns is a Platform Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building and operating infrastructure for fast-growing and enterprise environments. A Loughborough Computer Science graduate, he progressed from IT support through an Intel open-source engineering internship to infrastructure roles at Nomura and Zapier, blending hands-on system troubleshooting with scalable platform work. He focuses on making developer-facing systems reliable and productive, drawing on a background in UX-aware prototyping from Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. Comfortable across Ops and engineering domains, Chris brings pragmatic solutions informed by both enterprise trading systems and cloud-native SaaS platforms. Noteworthy is his trajectory from frontline user support to platform-level engineering, giving him a strong empathy for developer experience and incident response.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Loughborough University
English
Github Skills (80)
vala10
perl10
gtk10
command-line-tool10
act10
sdk10
cli10
nodejs10
zapier10
binaries10
administration10
letsencrypt9
gstreamer9
dotnet9
avro9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lbode/lightdm-contact-webkit
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ter0/canoe
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
A Python implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm.
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
raft-consensusraft-consensus-algorithmpythonconsensuspython-implementation
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