Summary
Chris Whitty is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of professional experience and a 15-year background across startups, corporates, and enterprise consulting. Currently at BeZero Carbon, he combines cloud-native engineering with product-focused delivery, having previously built Kubernetes operators in Go and dashboards in React at VMware. At Pivotal Labs he led cross-functional teams, championing XP, TDD, CI/CD and rapid product iteration for major brands, while earlier roles involved enterprise Java and Eclipse plugin development. He’s comfortable navigating both hands-on engineering and stakeholder-facing consulting, scoping projects and aligning teams to deliver robust systems. Based in Stony Stratford, UK, he brings a pragmatic blend of research-driven problem solving and practical implementation, often favoring operator-based automation and observable platform tooling.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc 2:1(Hons), Computer Science, BSc 2:1(Hons), Computer Science at University of Birmingham