Chris Lord
Solutions Architect at RAPP
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Lord is a Solutions Architect based in London with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale, cloud-native online sales platforms. He combines hands-on development in .NET, AWS (Lambda, ECS, SQS, RDS) and NoSQL with technical leadership—translating business requirements into architecture, running integration workshops, and mentoring development teams. Comfortable across the stack, he leads code reviews, performance refactors and deployment alongside release managers while maintaining an active role in proofs-of-concept. His background includes early front-end work on Firefox/Boot2Gecko UI and contributions to the high-profile web-platform-tests project, improving OffscreenCanvas API test coverage and browser compatibility. Known for running internal “lunch and learn” sessions, he prioritises knowledge sharing and practical, specification-compliant engineering. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he bridges business and engineering to turn complex requirements into reliable, maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Tanbridge HouseDiploma in Computer Studies, Diploma in Computer Studies at Central Sussex CollegeGCSE's, Mathematics, GCSE's, Mathematics at Tanbridge House School
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Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
web-standards10
test-automation10
testing10
interface-design9
browser9
test-runner9
user-interface9
dom8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-b2g/gaia
Jun 2013 - May 2016
DEPRECATED - Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:496 commits, 305 PRs, 118 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily focused on UI and user interaction improvements within the Boot 2 Gecko (B2G) project's HTML5-based phone UI (Gaia). They addressed multiple modal dialogs from the same origin in `modal_dialog.js` and resolved transition issues related to icon drop transitions in the grid. The user also implemented UI features such as adding the "Add to Home Screen" to the browser chrome menu and adding app icon animation for adding apps to collections.
branchesphonejavascriptgaiahtml5
web-platform-tests/wpt
Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 11 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the `web-platform-tests/wpt` repository by adding and modifying tests related to the OffscreenCanvas API. Their work involved creating new tests, fixing existing ones, and ensuring tests were compliant with the specifications, particularly focusing on `convertToBlob`, `createImageBitmap` and serialization aspects. The user's contributions included tests for various error conditions, including security errors and range enforcement. These changes aim to improve the accuracy and coverage of the WPT test suite, thus ensuring better browser compatibility.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
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