Christopher Batey
Chief Technology Officer at CECG
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Batey is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer and platform engineering specialist with two decades of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale server-side and distributed systems. He combines technical leadership with deep expertise in databases, clustering, and performance engineering—having contributed to high-profile open-source projects such as Akka and WireMock and worked on Cassandra integrations and compaction strategy improvements. Christopher focuses on accelerating delivery through self-service developer platforms and turning enterprise platform patterns into off-the-shelf solutions for SMEs and scaleups. He has a track record of mentoring engineering teams, presenting at conferences, and publishing detailed technical analyses on JVM, Paxos, and distributed database design. Comfortable leading at the executive level, he insists on remaining a contributing engineer and architect on the systems he oversees. Based in London, he pairs rigorous academic training (MSc distinction) with practical experience across consultancies and product engineering roles.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (distinction), Enterprise Computing, MSc (distinction), Enterprise Computing at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Github Skills (34)
cassandra10
api-design10
testing10
kafka-connector10
command-line-interface10
kafka10
sbt10
akka10
kafka-node10
java10
scala10
javas10
service-discovery10
api10
akka-streams10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
akka/akka-management
Oct 2017 - Feb 2021
Akka Management is a suite of tools for operating Akka Clusters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 10 reviews, 73 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on enhancing the multi-data-center support within the Akka Management suite. The user implemented and tested multi-DC functionality for Akka versions 2.4.20 and 2.5.6, including modifications to the `MultiDcSpec` and related build files. Furthermore, they made changes to integrate and configure the aggregate service discovery method. The commits also involved upgrades to SBT and Akka versions, and ensuring compatibility with SRV records for service discovery.
opsclustersakka-managementakka-httpscala
akka/akka-persistence-cassandra
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
A replicated Akka Persistence journal backed by Apache Cassandra
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:13 releases, 51 reviews, 229 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher's contributions primarily centered around enhancing the Akka Persistence Cassandra plugin. They implemented support for the TimeWindow compaction strategy and performed a significant refactoring to remove code duplication from various compaction strategies, which indicates a focus on improving the codebase's maintainability. The user set the version to 0.56 and then a SNAPSHOT version, showing a contribution related to the release process. They also made multiple code changes related to the eventsByTag query, including gap detection and the handling of tag writes to optimize query performance.
cassandrajournalapachecqrsakka-streams
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