Chris Pointon
Co-founder CTO at Influence Network
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorChris Pointon is a seasoned software business leader and technical architect with 25+ years of experience and 11 years focused on founding and scaling SaaS products and connected social applications. As Co-founder and CTO of Racefully and multiple prior startups, he blends product-led engineering, UX sensibility, and agile delivery to build scalable web systems and marketing technology. He has repeatedly led engineering teams through platform builds, migrations and analytics backends—most recently rebuilding an AWS analytics pipeline to support a 30M+ monthly active user product. Chris combines fractional CTO and consulting roles with community leadership in sustainable technology, showing a pragmatic interest in mission-driven engineering beyond pure commerce. Known for turning complex marketing and consent challenges into practical SaaS products (e.g., consent management and advocate marketing platforms), he pairs strategic product thinking with hands-on prototyping and delivery. Based in the Greater Cambridge area, he brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-border team-building experience, and a track record of shipping high-volume, data-driven systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
123reputation
16kreached
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2questions
Github Skills (71)
aws-sdk10
aws-sdk-ios10
amazon-web-services10
mkdocs9
swift8
sdk8
aws-mobile8
material-design8
documentation8
objective-c7
aws7
provisioning-profiles6
aws-apigateway6
http6
amazon-route536
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
icebreakerone/open-energy-python-infrastructure
Dec 2021 - Apr 2023
Exemplar data provider and client, as well as Python helpers to create same
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pythonproviderdata-providerexemplarhelpers
carbonmap/ccm-backend
Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 9 months
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