Summary
Chris Macbain is a senior software engineer with eight years’ experience building cloud-native, serverless systems and migrating legacy stacks to scalable AWS architectures. Based in London with ties to Spain, he has delivered end-to-end infrastructure using Terraform, API Gateway, Lambda and Aurora, and optimised Flask workloads for Lambda cold starts to improve performance and cost-efficiency. He’s worked across gaming and consumer SaaS, leading DevOps knowledge transfers, analytics integrations, and security improvements like IAM best practices and credential rotation. Comfortable across Java, Node.js, Docker and AWS services, Chris also brings a rare background in translation, giving him strong cross-cultural communication skills that help during acquisitions and cross-team migrations.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Ruby on Rails Programme Computer Science, Full Stack Ruby on Rails Programme Computer Science at Le Wagon
IT Engineering Information Technology, IT Engineering Information Technology at Universitat d'Alacant
English, Spanish, French