Chris Whyley
Director at Zamzar
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Whyley is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder of Zamzar, combining 12+ years of startup CTO experience with a decade of hands-on technical leadership at IBM. He has designed and scaled a high-traffic SaaS file-conversion platform while also owning product, partnerships, capacity planning and customer support—bringing rare end-to-end operational experience. Comfortable from low-level PHP/Python and Linux ops to API design and AWS architectures, he’s also led automated testing for flagship WebSphere web services and managed distributed teams across continents. An inventor with an international patent and published IBM author, he pairs practical engineering grit with a thoughtful, historically trained perspective. Outside work he’s a tinkerer who snowboards and makes music, reflecting a creative curiosity that drives his approach to product and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
2:1, History, 2:1, History at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (45)
bluepill8
installer7
updater6
casio6
vlc6
excel6
smartwatch6
xls6
openxml6
lcd6
file-conversion6
command-line-interface6
xlsx6
video-conversion6
pwm5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
whyleyc/zamzar-php
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
Simple PHP script to use the Zamzar file conversion API
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches, 3 comments in 1 year 5 months
apifile-conversionphpconversionphp-script
whyleyc/unoconv
Apr 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
pdflibreofficejavascriptsupportedoffice-converter
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