Chris Stratford
SD-WAN Sales Specialist at Vocus
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Stratford is an SD-WAN Sales Specialist with over 15 years in the Australian telco and ICT sector, combining deep technical consulting with front-line sales to design WAN, SD‑WAN, xWDM and cloud-enabled solutions. He has driven major bids and tender responses across enterprise, government and wholesale markets, contributing to multimillion-dollar wins and long-term revenue streams. Technically certified across Cisco, Meraki, Riverbed, VMware and Azure fundamentals, he melds network architecture skills with commercial negotiation and presentation strengths. At times acting as technical lead, he has managed complex multi-vendor projects and network rationalisation efforts that reduce cost and operational risk. Outside telecoms he contributes to open-source front-end work, improving UI components in the popular Mantine React library—showing a hands-on interest in software UX and tooling. Bilingual in English and conversational German, he holds engineering studies from UTS and brings a customer-obsessed mindset to cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Newington College, StanmoreBEng, Dip Eng Prac [Partially], Engineering, BEng, Dip Eng Prac [Partially], Engineering at University of Technology Sydney
English, German
Stackoverflow
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20answers
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Github Skills (22)
hook10
javascript10
multiselect10
ui-components10
select-all10
typescript10
select210
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
selectbox10
autocomplete9
uikit8
darktheme7
darkmode7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mantinedev/mantine
May 2021 - Sep 2021
A fully featured React components library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 13 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Mantine React component library, focusing on UI improvements and bug fixes. They addressed issues related to component behavior and demos, such as correcting titles and missing variables. The user also added features like supporting string data in the `Autocomplete` and `SegmentedControl` components and implementing a loading state for `ActionIcon`. Several commits involved refining the `Select` component, including allowing default values to take precedence and adding a string data support.
reactcomponents-libraryreact-nativedark-themedark-mode
cstrat/hdb.io
May 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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