Chris Parsons
Writer at LLM London
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Parsons is a technology leader, writer, and founder with 16 years of experience helping organisations adopt AI safely and productively. He combines hands-on engineering and open-source contributions in Ruby and backend systems (notably work on cucumber-ruby and government Whitehall projects) with strategic coaching that turns early adopters into team-wide capability. As CTO and co‑founder across multiple startups, he has scaled engineering teams, bootstrapped a $1M ARR consultancy, and shipped commercial products including an indie game. Today he runs the AI Leaders newsletter and advises founders and senior managers on practical rollouts that prevent productivity traps and embed repeatable AI workflows. Based in Winchester, he also runs LLM London and supports clients building production AI agents, prioritising technical depth over hype. A pragmatic communicator, he focuses on measurable adoption and the often-overlooked barrier: senior engineers who are “too busy” to learn new tools.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (18)
testing10
cucumber10
rails10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
activerecord10
mongodb10
ruby-on-rails10
test-automation10
api-design9
restful-api9
postgresql9
api-rest9
rest-api9
html9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Oct 2012 - May 2013
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:287 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris made several contributions to the `alphagov/whitehall` repository, focusing on back-end development tasks. Their work involved modifying the `Attachment` and `Edition` models to handle price storage on edition edits. They also made improvements to validations within the codebase and refactored components for modularity, showing a focus on improving code maintainability and functionality related to government content publishing. Furthermore, they added several database related changes to support various features such as HTML versions and worldwide priority.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
May 2013 - Aug 2014
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:47 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Cucumber-Ruby project by modifying the core functionality and improving its testing infrastructure. They refactored code related to feature exclusion, snippet language handling, and the presentation of failing scenarios. Furthermore, the user added support for Ruby 2.1 compatibility and refined exception handling within the runtime environment, ensuring the framework’s robustness. They have demonstrated expertise in Ruby and the Cucumber framework through their code changes and bug fixes.
cucumberrubyamazingpolyglot-releasetidelift
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