Chris Lloyd
Founder at Four/Four
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Lloyd is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of formal experience and a 20+-year career grounding in streaming, distributed systems and enterprise SaaS. He builds product-focused engineering organisations and makes pragmatic technology decisions to ensure teams deliver measurable ROI for customers, most recently founding Four/Four to combine AI and business methodology for SaaS customer insight. As former Evotix CTO and VP of Operations he scaled safety and learning platforms used by large enterprises and led cross-functional delivery to rapid commercial impact. A hands-on engineer at heart, he contributes to notable open-source projects such as Capacitor and Laravel Socialite (notably improving SAML2 support), reflecting deep expertise in cross-platform app and secure authentication flows. Based in London, he pairs broadcast and streaming roots from the BBC and Kollective with modern cloud-native and AI approaches to drive long-term client value.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Swansea University
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Github Skills (27)
filesystem10
javascript10
ios10
electron10
laravel-mix10
saml10
user-authentication10
authentication10
cross-platform10
file-operations10
laravel10
php10
soc10
android10
fileio10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SocialiteProviders/Providers
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
A Collection of Providers for Laravel Socialite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the SAML2 provider within the Laravel Socialite ecosystem. Their contributions included the implementation of the SAML2 provider, the addition of configuration keys, handling multiple entity descriptors, refining the authentication request process, fixing route matching issues, and adding comprehensive SAML validations. These changes improved the provider's functionality, robustness, and security.
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ionic-team/capacitor
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on bug fixes and feature implementation across multiple platforms within the Capacitor framework. Their contributions included addressing issues in the Electron, Android, and iOS implementations, specifically related to file system operations such as reading, writing, and moving files. They also added new features like a copy implementation and recursive directory removal. These changes suggest a strong understanding of cross-platform development and the intricacies of native mobile and web applications.
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