Chris Kempster
Senior Non Functional Test Engineer at Currencycloud
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Kempster is a Senior Non Functional Test Engineer with five years’ experience specialising in performance, reliability and automation for microservices at Currencycloud. He designs and implements shift-left performance pipelines (Jenkins/k6), leads chaos experiments (Gremlin) and drives test architecture across Kubernetes-based platforms. Previously he led automation efforts at TrakCel, building extensible regression frameworks and CI-integrated test suites across API and UI layers. Comfortable with a broad toolset (k6, Gatling, JMeter, Datadog, Rest Assured) and languages used in large-scale services, he blends hands-on scripting with strategic FMEA-style thinking to reduce production risk. Based in Cardiff, he pairs pragmatic engineering with curiosity—often surfacing hidden failure modes before they reach customers.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddAccess to Higher Education, Computer Science, Pass, Access to Higher Education, Computer Science, Pass at Bridgend CollegePharmacy Services, Pharmacy Technician/Assistant, Pass Pass, Pharmacy Services, Pharmacy Technician/Assistant, Pass Pass at Coleg Glan Hafren
Spanish, English
Github Skills (54)
avro10
javascript10
load-generator10
testing10
typescript10
sasl10
performance-testing10
go10
k6-extension10
golang10
k610
load-testing10
json-schema9
kafka9
producer9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kempsterc/xk6-sql
Apr 2024 - Dec 2024
k6 extension to load test RDBMSs (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL and SQLite3)
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
kempsterc/xk6-output-statsd
May 2024 - Jul 2024
k6 extension to output real-time test metrics using StatsD.
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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