Chris Zetter
Staff Software Engineer at Raspberry Pi Foundation
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Zetter is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and evolving web applications, APIs, and developer platforms—most recently shaping architectures at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. A polyglot developer comfortable across Ruby and JavaScript stacks, he has a strong track record of refactoring legacy systems, improving testing and security practices, and enabling faster product delivery through platform thinking. He combines hands-on coding with people leadership, mentoring engineers, running workshops, and managing cross-team progress from startups to larger organizations. Notably, he has led technical transformations at companies like Farewill and FutureLearn, turning brittle codebases into more maintainable systems while also taking on CTO-style responsibilities early in his career. Based in Stony Stratford and trained at Imperial College London, he blends academic grounding with practical, product-focused engineering.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computing, MEng, Computing at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (106)
mvc10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
sketch10
html10
rails10
drawing9
sdk9
voronoi9
guardian9
react9
extjs9
crossword9
capybara9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zetter/react-crossword
Nov 2018 - Nov 2021
React Crossword Component
Contributions:85 commits, 10 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 years
crosswordreactreact-commentsjavascriptcrosswords
zetter/london-buses
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 2 days
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