Chris Lowder
Principal Software Engineer at Raspberry Pi
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarChris Lowder is a Principal Software Engineer based in England with 15 years of experience building and leading engineering efforts across startups and product teams, currently driving platform and architectural work at Raspberry Pi. A seasoned Ruby and Rails practitioner and YC alum who co-founded Fixers (YC S18), he blends hands-on backend and DevOps skills with product ownership and BI experience. His open-source contributions include meaningful enhancements to popular projects like foreman—adding a plugin-like export architecture—and helping migrate and harden apps to Rails for 24pullrequests. Chris has repeatedly moved between individual contributor and leadership roles, shipping production-facing features, improving maintainability, and integrating analytics and deployment tooling. Known for practical refactors that unlock extensibility, he brings an engineer-first approach to balancing reliability with rapid iteration.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (27)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
css10
configuration-management10
responsive-design10
rails10
autodeploy10
ruby10
azure-deployment10
front-end-development10
web-deployment10
html10
devops10
ruby-on-rails10
google-analytics9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
raspberrypi/documentation
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
The official documentation for Raspberry Pi computers and microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 4 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on updating the website's header and footer components. Their work included implementing bug fixes, improving the mobile responsiveness of the navigation, and adding new links to the header. They also modernized the footer by adding new links to terms and conditions, and removing legacy features. Furthermore, the user integrated Google Analytics 4 tracking to the website.
raspberry-piraspberry-pi-picoraspberrycomputersraspberry-pi-camera
ddollar/foreman
Oct 2011 - Jan 2012
Manage Procfile-based applications
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the application's export functionality, enabling users to define and integrate custom export formats. They refactored the codebase to support plug-in-like architecture for export formats and implemented error handling to facilitate the integration of new formats. Their work also included modifying existing export formats, such as Upstart, Runit, Bluepill, and Inittab, and improving the overall flexibility and maintainability of the application.
procfile
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