Chris Waugh
Centre Tech Lead For Borders And Trade at HM Revenue & Customs
Hartlepool, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Waugh is a Centre Tech Lead for Borders and Trade at HM Revenue & Customs, a North East–based software leader with ~18 years in the online sector and 14 years of hands-on professional experience. He combines technical leadership with pragmatic delivery, having led cross-functional teams (devops, cloud, data science, frontend, mobile, hardware) and shipped mission-critical public sector systems like import/export and tax integrations. Comfortable in Scala, Play, Node/TypeScript and cloud CI/CD, he mentors engineers and promotes test-driven, functional approaches to build reliable microservices. His track record spans startups and government contracts, including delivering the UK Catch Certificate service post-Brexit and hardware integrations for solar inverters. Chris is open to local or remote contract opportunities and brings a blend of delivery focus, user-centred iteration, and experience translating complex regulatory requirements into production software. A Teesside University computer studies graduate, he pairs regional roots with experience across both enterprise and startup environments.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
A/AS Levels Computing Business Physics and Law, A/AS Levels Computing Business Physics and Law at Hartlepool Sixth Form CollegeBSc Computer Studies, BSc Computer Studies at Teesside University
English
Github Skills (19)
derived10
jenkins9
groovy8
static-assets8
tax6
frontend4
async-test2
reference-implementation1
java1
application-framework1
integrate1
async1
testing1
elasticsearch1
jpa1
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/lisa-api
Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 release, 932 commits, 310 PRs in 2 years 1 month
chriswaugh/chriswaugh.github.io
Nov 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 7 months
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