Chris Young
Tech Lead at Hootenanny
Thanet, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Young is a pragmatic, hands-on Tech Lead with 13+ years delivering cloud platforms and resilient services across public sector and commercial organisations. He focuses on observability, scalability, robustness and automation, and has led in-house, cross-organisation and outsourced teams to run production-critical systems at scale. Co-author of "A Team Guide to Metrics for Business Decisions," he blends operator instincts (aptly calling himself “the operator with my pocket calculator”) with strategic engineering leadership. His career spans senior roles from platform engineering at HMRC and NHS Digital to CTO and VP positions in media and startups, demonstrating versatility in both building teams and shipping reliable infrastructure. Based in Thanet, UK, he brings a measurable, metrics-driven approach to turning complex operational challenges into pragmatic, automated solutions.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation, Foundation at Kent Institute of Art and DesignBA Hons, BA Hons at University of LeedsMSc, MSc at University of Kent
French
Stackoverflow
493reputation
27kreached
10answers
6questions
Github Skills (87)
python10
automation10
ssh10
background-service10
ansible10
devops10
network-configuration9
queue9
infrastructure-as-code9
resque9
monit9
agile8
job-queue8
job-scheduler8
background-worker8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
worldofchris/jlf
May 2013 - Feb 2020
Contributions:122 commits, 3 PRs, 65 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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worldofchris/paas
Nov 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
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