Christopher Atkins
Principal Software Engineer at Buildkite
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Atkins is a Principal Software Engineer in Melbourne with 12 years' experience designing and standardising large-scale platform architectures. He has led cross-regional engineering efforts at Zendesk—driving API, platform and data standards, multi-language backend consistency, and migrations to multi-arch Docker and Graviton-friendly builds—and now shapes technical direction at Buildkite. Comfortable across Go, Ruby, Java, gRPC, Kafka and cloud native tooling, he blends hands-on microservice design with organisation-wide standards and developer tooling. Christopher has repeatedly moved products from prototype to production, from customer-facing apps to core infrastructure like starter kits and templating for CI/CD. He also brings a teacher’s instinct to engineering, having run internal training and public "learn to code" sessions earlier in his career. That mix of pragmatic engineering, platform stewardship and developer experience focus makes him effective at scaling both systems and teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of MelbourneVictorian Certificate of Education, Victorian Certificate of Education at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar SchoolBachelor of Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering at RMIT University
English
Github Skills (200)
duckdb10
kafka-consumer10
bigquery10
sql-database10
data-collection10
kafka-producer10
python10
operation10
ruby10
etl10
data-pipeline10
data-engineering10
pipeline10
shipit10
rbenv10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/statsd-logger
Aug 2017 - Mar 2022
StatsD + Datadog APM logging server for development - standalone or embedded
Contributions:4 releases, 28 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 7 months
golanggolang-librarylogging-serverapmlogging
catkins/chatterbox
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:41 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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