Chris Mckee
Principal Software Engineer at iVendi
West Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Mckee is a Principal Software Engineer with 16+ years building and operating distributed systems across finance, e-commerce and healthcare, blending deep C#/.NET expertise with cloud architecture and infrastructure-as-code. At iVendi he led CQRS/event-sourced designs, migrated systems to multi-region AWS with IaC, and implemented security-conscious crypto shredding using AWS HSM to meet GDPR requirements. He combines hands-on performance tuning and bulk data pipeline optimization (EC2 spot autoscaling, SQS, Lambda, RabbitMQ) with practical dev-sec-ops work including security testing and post-mortem practices. An active open-source contributor, he has improved high-profile .NET projects like the official Elasticsearch client and EasyHttp by fixing cross-platform issues, adding tests and optimizing hotspots. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, cost-aware scaling, and turning legacy examples into modern, testable codebases. Based in West Suffolk, he pairs systems-level thinking with low-level optimizations and a track record of shipping resilient, auditable production services.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSC(hons), Computer Games Software Development, BSC(hons), Computer Games Software Development at The University of Bolton
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Github Skills (28)
unit-testing10
nuget10
testing10
elasticsearch-net10
amazon-elasticsearch10
net10
nunit10
dotnet10
netframework10
asp-net10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
performance-optimization10
dotnet-core10
elasticsearch10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
BcryptNet/bcrypt.net
Aug 2016 - Sep 2022
BCrypt.Net - Bringing updates to the original bcrypt package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 181 commits, 90 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the codebase by implementing build and test scripts and migrating test frameworks. The first commit involved creating a script to build NuGet packages, and the second involved moving tests to the NUnit framework. The user also made code adjustments, changing exception handling.
bcryptblowfishc-sharphashnetcore
ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Examples
Jun 2012 - Aug 2013
Example Projects built with ServiceStack, C# RedisClient, OrmLite, etc
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on fixing and updating existing projects within the ServiceStack examples repository. Their work involved addressing issues with project file configurations related to IIS setup, as well as updating dependencies. Further contributions included fixing and updating the Northwind example, switching dependencies to NuGet and optimizing images. They also resolved SQLLite issues within a MovieRest project.
csharpormliteredis-clientservicestack
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