Chris Watson
Head Of Interoperability at Alpha FMC
Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Watson is a Head of Interoperability and fintech-focused software leader with 11 years of experience designing integrated solutions across public and financial sectors. He moves fluidly between hands-on front/back-end development, cloud and AI tooling, and technical sales—having streamlined POC-to-sales processes and led high-impact teams. A founder of bibbit and former senior solutions consultant at interop.io, he pairs product-minded engineering with practical integration architecture. An active open-source contributor (FINOS, Mozilla, Meta, Google) and educator, he brings rare experience translating classroom teaching into developer enablement and stakeholder communication. Based in Royal Leamington Spa, he combines technical depth (Oxford AI coursework, full-stack background) with a knack for making complex interoperability problems simple and actionable.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC E-Media, BTEC E-Media at South & City College BirminghamFoundation degree, Certificate in Education and Training, Foundation degree, Certificate in Education and Training at University of WarwickKing Edward VI Sheldon HeathBachelor of Science (BSc), Digital Computer Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Digital Computer Technology at Nottingham Trent UniversityDeveloping Artificial Intelligence Applications using Python and Tensorflow, Developing Artificial Intelligence Applications using Python and Tensorflow at Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford
English
Github Skills (28)
javascript10
electron10
fintech10
frontend10
react10
openfin9
apps-script9
user-interface9
typescript9
css9
http9
documentation9
js9
web-development9
html9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SeeWhatsOn/FDC3-Sail
May 2025 - Jul 2026
Open implementation of the FDC3 standard using Electron and an integrated App Directory.
Contributions:3 PRs, 131 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year 2 months
cwatson88/train-track
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Train app to get platform and train info from the DARWIN service
Contributions:28 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
darwintrain
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