Chris Nesbitt-smith
Consultant at learnk8s
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarChris Nesbitt-smith is a seasoned consultant and technical lead with 12+ years delivering large-scale web and cloud-native transformations across UK government, finance, and enterprise clients. He blends pragmatic, GDS-aligned delivery with strong hands-on engineering — from Kubernetes and Docker instruction at Learnk8s to architecting security-conscious solutions at the Home Office and Bank of England. Chris has led migrations, platform builds and developer tooling, contributed open-source cloud-native supply-chain tooling at Appvia, and improved UX features in projects like the Marp CLI presenter view. He favours low-bureaucracy environments and a common-sense, detail-oriented approach that keeps projects moving without sacrificing quality. Based in London, he pairs public-sector delivery rigor with startup-style engineering and an appetite for teaching and mentoring cross-functional teams. Outside work he’s a “skydiving web geek,” signaling a taste for calculated risks and hands-on problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
typescript-types9
presentation-layer9
typescripts9
typescript9
presentationml9
presenter9
cli8
react8
decks7
css7
html7
markdown6
markdown-it6
Programming languages (37)
Github contributions (5)
marp-team/marp-cli
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
A CLI interface for Marp and Marpit based converters
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Marp CLI project. They implemented features for the presenter view, including resizing the notes area and adding a timer. They also modified the UI and added functionality related to notes export. Their work involved modifications to the bespoke template and involved changes to the presenter view.
converterspresentationdeckmarpmarpit
chrisns/repo-config
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 26 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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