Chris Wright
Distinguished Engineer (SCS1) at HM Revenue & Customs
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Wright is a Distinguished Engineer and Head of Engineering at HM Revenue & Customs, leading people, technology and engineering practices for the Contact Engagement Platform and related services. With eight years of progressive experience at HMRC — from Test Automation Engineer through Lead and Principal Developer to SCS1 — he blends deep hands-on test automation, CI/CD and observability experience with strategic platform leadership. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield, bringing rigorous research mindset to large-scale public-sector delivery. Comfortable across Scala/Play, Cucumber/Selenium, Gatling and Jenkins-driven pipelines, Chris focuses on building auditable, resilient systems that scale for high-stakes government services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who pairs technical depth with people leadership to turn operational insight into durable engineering practices.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (8)
derived7
live-preview4
jenkins4
sublime-text4
groovy3
sublime3
python2
markdown2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/accessibility-testing-library
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:37 commits, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 10 months
hmrc/claim-child-benefit-performance-tests
Jul 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:12 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 months
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