Chris Radford
Engineering Manager at Simply Business
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChris Radford is an engineering manager with 14 years of hands-on and leadership experience building payments, mobile, and web platforms across startups and enterprise clients. Currently leading US carrier onboarding and four engineering teams at Simply Business, he oversees ~30 engineers across the US and UK and drives hiring, internships, and a six-figure training budget. He combines product-facing technical work—pitching to insurers, shaping roadmaps with VPs, and providing contract and PCI compliance input—with delivery of Ruby and React systems spanning greenfield and legacy codebases. His background includes building international payment systems supporting dozens of currencies and countries and shipping iOS apps and large-scale Rails sites for both startups and Fortune 500s. An MBA graduate who started as employee #1 at an early SaaS scale-up, he brings a rare mix of operator grit, cross-border delivery experience, and commercial empathy. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, security-minded solutions that balance engineering velocity with real-world business constraints.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General at The Open UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Management Studies, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Management Studies at University of Nottingham
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
solidus10
rubymotion9
spree9
ruby9
ecommerce9
storefront9
rails9
afnetworking8
thin8
eventbrite8
shopping-cart8
wordpress7
api7
user-experience7
api-documentation7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chrisradford/chiketto
May 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1 release, 78 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 3 months
apiruby-gemapi-v3railsruby
chrisradford/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:22 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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