Chris Patuzzo
Head Of Engineering at BeyondWords
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Patuzzo is a Head of Engineering based in London with 13 years of experience leading and hands-on building backend systems across startups, public sector and fintech. He progressed from technical lead and senior engineering roles into leadership, founding a startup (TrueFootprint) and now heading engineering at BeyondWords after multiple contract roles including work at Currencycloud, Babylon Health and the Government Digital Service. Chris brings a pragmatic blend of architectural judgement and delivery focus, often stepping into teams to refactor systems, add observability (e.g., request tracing for workers) and tighten API integrations. He has real product-facing backend expertise demonstrated by contributions to the widely used alphagov/whitehall publishing platform, where he optimized downstream model payloads and translation workflows. Comfortable with rapid context-switching from contracts to long-term strategy, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with a track record of shipping reliable, production-grade systems. Trained in Computer Science at the University of Southampton, he favors measurable improvements that reduce operational surface area while accelerating feature delivery.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Southampton
English
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Github Skills (22)
ruby-rails10
wsh10
apidoc10
wp-api10
dhall10
rails10
ruby10
api10
hal10
testing9
sidekiq9
rspec9
unit-test9
minitest9
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Dec 2015 - Jan 2018
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:155 commits, 119 PRs, 201 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on enhancing the Whitehall publishing platform, focusing on the backend logic and API integrations. Their contributions involved creating/updating translations by integrating with the Publishing API, and modifying code to ensure only the necessary models were sent downstream, optimizing the system. They also refactored code, adding request tracing to workers that use downstream APIs, and fixed bugs related to email subscription notifications.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
sentient-lang/sentient-lang.org
Jun 2016 - Feb 2020
The website for the Sentient Programming Language.
Contributions:96 commits, 3 PRs, 143 pushes in 3 years 8 months
programming-languagemojo
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