Chris Oxley
Scala Java IT Contractor at Equal Experts
Greater Leeds Area United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorChris Oxley is a pragmatic Scala and Java contractor with 11+ years delivering microservices and enterprise systems across UK organizations from William Hill to Sky and Equal Experts. He blends functional Scala (Play, ZIO) and JVM expertise (Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin) with hands-on cloud work on AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform, routinely shipping serverless Lambdas and containerised services. Comfortable across the full stack, he has also implemented frontend-facing work such as themed email templates for HMRC’s renderer, showing attention to UX details beyond backend plumbing. Based in the Greater Leeds area and available from April 2024, he’s known for quickly integrating into delivery teams and modernising legacy platforms through migration and microservice patterns. His long history of contracting demonstrates adaptability and a willingness to pick up new languages and tools as projects demand.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
api10
html-template10
apidoc10
email-templates10
playframework9
sbt7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/hmrc-email-renderer
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the API platform by implementing new email templates. They worked on adding various templates related to API developer notifications and confirmations, including password resets, verification emails, and collaborator management. The contributions also involve theming and styling changes to the email templates including header and border modifications. Additionally, the user modified project dependencies in a build file, and updated template parameters.
ctoxley/http-tools
Apr 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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