Chris Poole
Solutions Architect at Fastly Inc
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Poole is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect focused on mainframe modernization with 15 years of experience blending pre-sales engineering, developer advocacy, and hands-on platform architecture. He has driven enterprise transformation at scale—helping large North American banks and insurers modernize legacy systems, create migration runbooks, and onboard complex partners while influencing product roadmaps to improve developer experience. At AWS, IBM, and Fastly he led cross-functional teams, created developer communities, and authored reference architectures and tooling (including mainframe data migration workflows and CI/CD examples) to accelerate customer adoption. He’s a confident presenter and mentor who runs technical training courses, builds hackathon playbooks, and translates deep technical detail into CxO-level strategy. Unusually for a solutions architect, he holds a PhD in theoretical physics, bringing rigorous problem-solving and systems thinking to cloud and infrastructure challenges. Based in the UK, he combines technical depth with a talent for scaling teams and developer ecosystems to turn proofs-of-concept into production outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
MPhys, Theoretical Physics, 1st Class, MPhys, Theoretical Physics, 1st Class at Lancaster University
French, English
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Github Skills (107)
kubernetes-deployment9
expressjs9
gcp9
inspect9
plugin9
fastly9
k8s8
infrastructure8
terraform8
protect8
react8
velero8
converter8
package-template8
kubernetes8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
chrispoole643/etc
Jan 2013 - Sep 2020
Contributions:783 commits, 210 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years 9 months
chrispoole643/rip-discs
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:24 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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