Chris Kirkham
Software Engineering Manager at Discover Financial Services
Hassocks, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Kirkham is a software engineering manager with 15 years of experience leading teams across scaleups and large enterprises, currently driving engineering delivery at Discover Financial Services. He previously scaled and unified engineering functions at insurtech Concirrus, progressing from technical business analyst to Director of Engineering and aligning multiple product teams toward repeatable, efficient delivery. A pragmatic technologist, Chris blends hands-on familiarity with Java, Python, MySQL, ELK, AWS and GCP with a strong advocacy for test automation and quality. He practices servant leadership and fosters meritocratic, psychologically safe teams that prioritize shared understanding of the “why” behind solutions. Comfortable in both product and technical roles, he has bridged analytics, product management and engineering in insurance and automotive contexts. Based in Hassocks, England, Chris pairs curiosity-driven problem solving with a deliberate, pragmatic approach to adopting new technologies.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Portsmouth
English
Github Skills (26)
fiducial-markers10
rds9
feature-extraction9
wsi9
amazon9
computer-vision9
amazon-ec28
aws8
cost-optimization8
robot7
opencv7
deep-learning6
robotics6
graphql-subscriptions5
javascript4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
srobo/libkoki
Aug 2011 - Feb 2013
A computer vision library for detecting and estimating the position of fiducial markers
Contributions:211 commits in 1 year 6 months
positionwsivisionfeature-extractiondeep-learning
chrisjameskirkham/memcache-viewer
Aug 2010 - Nov 2010
Contributions:44 commits in 2 months
memcachephpweb-applicationcachedumps
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