Chris Newton
Lead Developer at Sky
Staines-upon-Thames, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Newton is a Lead Developer with 14 years’ experience building desktop, mobile and web applications, currently leading development at Sky. He combines deep front-end expertise in vanilla JavaScript, React, CSS3/Sass and Webpack with server-side Node.js/Express and MongoDB, and has a strong background in native Android and iOS development. As a former founder and head of front-end teams, he has shipped MERN-based, containerised production platforms on AWS and created Adobe CEP extensions to streamline After Effects and Photoshop template workflows. Comfortable across the full stack, he’s known for selecting pragmatic stacks for rapid prototyping and production scaling, and mentoring teams through technical transitions. Based in Staines-upon-Thames, he brings a rare blend of motion-graphics roots and systems engineering that helps bridge creative and engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Electronic Engineering, 2-1, BEng, Electronic Engineering, 2-1 at University of ReadingMaster of Science (MSc), Music Technology, Pass, Master of Science (MSc), Music Technology, Pass at University of York
English
Github Skills (8)
csv8
xlsx6
excel5
xls4
xlsxwriter4
excel-import3
worksheet2
exceljs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrisjcnewton/TsStreamDownloader
Mar 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 23 pushes in 1 year 4 months
chrisjcnewton/Portfolio
Jan 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:29 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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