Chris Rimmer
Senior Developer - Team Lead at SoundNorfolk
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Rimmer is a Senior Developer and team lead based in Norwich with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-performance, scalable web APIs and services. He has progressed through technical roles at Naked Wines from Java developer to Senior Developer and Team Lead, and previously architected large-scale APIs and cloud migrations at blinkx, handling millions of requests per hour. A first-class Computer Science graduate from the University of East Anglia, Chris blends practical backend expertise (Java, PHP, databases, cloud) with leadership in delivery and migration projects. He also co-founded and maintains SoundNorfolk, a community-facing music platform, demonstrating an entrepreneurial streak and a knack for shipping end-to-end products that serve real users. Notably, his background includes designing emulation layers and re-architecting systems for AWS auto-scaling, reflecting an emphasis on reliability during major infrastructure changes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, Maths, Physics, ICT, History, A Levels, Maths, Physics, ICT, History at Thomas Mills High SchoolBSc (Hons), Computer Science, 1st, BSc (Hons), Computer Science, 1st at University of East Anglia
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Github Skills (93)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rockinrimmer/VSCode-Liquibase-Snippets
May 2018 - Jul 2019
A VSCode extension that provides liquibase snippets.
Contributions:9 releases, 16 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 1 month
liquibasevscodevscode-extensionsnippets
rockinrimmer/eu4calculator
Sep 2017 - May 2019
Website of tools for the game Europa Universalis IV
Contributions:3 releases, 119 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 8 months
europa-universalis-iveuropauniversalis
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