Chris Riddle
Lead Principal Software Engineer at The Trade Desk
Bradmore, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Riddle is a Lead Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on distributed systems, big data, automated testing and shortening feedback cycles to boost team performance. Based in Bradmore, UK, he has progressed through engineering and leadership roles at The Trade Desk, MOO and OpenTable, blending hands-on architecture with people-focused management. He excels at translating complex, data-heavy requirements into reliable, scalable systems and coaching teams to operate at their best. A mathematician by training (BSc Hons, University of Bath), he brings a quantitative mindset to system design and a habit of reducing uncertainty through automation and measurement. Notably, his career shows a pattern of stepping into roles that scale both technology and teams, from leading development squads to defining platform-level engineering standards.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons) Mathematics, BSc(Hons) Mathematics at University of Bath
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Github Skills (21)
toggle10
vagrantfile10
client-library8
feature-toggle8
vagrant8
odata6
wcf6
wcf-ria-services6
csharp6
charts6
memory-leaks6
dotnet6
silverlight6
nodejs5
etcd5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
opentable/hobknob-client-net
Sep 2014 - May 2015
A .net client library for Hobknob
Contributions:32 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 months
client-librarydotnetcsharp
christriddle/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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