Summary
Chris Priest is a Principal Consultant and hands-on technical architect with 20+ years building and modernising cloud-native systems across financial services, retail, insurance and data analytics. He specialises in full-lifecycle engagement ownership—shaping and selling complex consulting work through to delivery governance—and has a proven track record scaling new markets, having relocated to Chicago to build Ensono Digital’s US practice and help close over $13M in bookings. Technically fluent across SRE, platform modernisation, IDAM/CIAM and data engineering, he combines commercial judgement with delivery accountability, recently leading multi-million-dollar CIAM and data analytics programmes. Earlier he co-founded a consultancy that delivered high-throughput systems (10M tx/day coupon platform, 750k ANPR events/day), showing both product-minded engineering and operational rigour. Colleagues describe him as persistent and metric-driven, equally comfortable coaching teams in-person and stepping into critical delivery or pre-sales technical leadership.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Loughborough University