Summary
Chris Sampson is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years' experience building distributed systems, currently developing SOA messaging solutions that connect brokers and insurers for risk pricing and transaction lifecycle at Coverwise. He brings deep hands-on expertise across backend architectures (akka.net on Azure) and cross-platform mobile stacks (Xamarin, React Native), having spent nearly a decade shaping enterprise insurance software at Applied Systems and Baker Tilly. Outside of work he experiments with UI framework design and rebuilds classic games in Rust, demonstrating a mix of pragmatic engineering and curiosity for system-level programming. Based in the Greater Brighton area, he combines production-grade integration experience with a hobbyist’s drive to explore new languages and UI patterns, making him comfortable both in legacy modernization and forward-looking technical experiments.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Crestwood School