Chris Nappin
Lead Technical Architect at Keep IT Simple LTD
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Nappin is a Lead Technical Architect with over 25 years of hands-on software and cloud experience and 11 years in senior architecture and delivery roles. He designs and delivers secure, cost-effective cloud-native and serverless systems—from citizen-facing public-sector services at scale to rapid MVPs for startups—while still coding critical components and optimising performance. Comfortable switching between senior developer, DevOps engineer, and architect roles, he brings deep expertise in event-driven, microservice and streaming architectures (Kafka), Terraform/Bicep IaC, and both AWS and Azure platforms. He has a track record of influencing governance and non-functional requirements—shaping naming/tagging policies, landing zones and Infosec approvals—so teams ship reliably into production. Notably, he has implemented bespoke solutions such as a high-throughput Transactional Outbox to bridge legacy systems into millisecond-latency Kafka pipelines. Based in England, he combines rigorous attention to detail with a passion for mentoring and raising engineering standards across teams.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (67)
smoke10
automation-testing10
recaptcha10
blocking10
invisible-recaptcha10
cucumber-java10
google-recaptcha10
selenium-java10
non-blocking9
reactive9
regression-testing9
regression9
selenium-webdriver9
scala9
poller8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dvsa/mot-automated-testsuite
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Automated test suite for the MOT application, for smoke and regression testing. Built using Cucumber, Java and Selenium, using data contained within each environment.
Contributions:305 commits, 2 PRs, 270 pushes in 5 months
regressionselenium-javaautomation-testingtest-automationcucumber-java
chrisnappin/play-recaptcha-example
Jul 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 26 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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