Chris Reid
CTO At OvonOne
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorChris Reid is a hands-on CTO and software engineer with 13 years’ experience building production-grade SaaS platforms for automotive, logistics and warranty administration. At OvonOne he leads engineering and product across operationally critical systems, prioritising clarity, maintainability and pragmatic trade-offs over hype or overengineering. Deeply backend-focused, he specialises in Laravel/PHP, API design and end-to-end SaaS architecture while remaining comfortable diving into code to solve real-world problems. He has a track record of leading small, high-quality teams and mentoring experienced engineers to balance speed, quality and long-term maintainability. Chris is also interested in the thoughtful application of AI to genuinely improve workflows rather than add complexity, and brings a practical consultancy mindset honed from running Cloudest and leading long-term bespoke projects.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (56)
web-application10
laravel10
php10
foundation9
singular9
application-framework9
stripe9
reorder9
paypal9
lowercase9
payment9
uppercase9
inflector9
slug9
expressive9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cloudest-co/skeleton-php
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
A skeleton repository for Spatie's PHP Packages
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
php-packagesphpspatieskeleton
nexuspointltd/laravel-versioned
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 6 pushes in 3 months
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