Christopher Ford
Principal Software Engineer at Australian Public Service
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolChristopher Ford is a Principal Software Engineer based in Canberra with 12 years of experience building maintainable, stakeholder-focused software within the Australian Public Service. He combines hands-on .NET event-processing and web application development with systems design, recently leading the creation of a common data model to unify content from disparate sources for a single visualization platform. Comfortable working independently in growth areas, he mentors graduates and junior engineers while driving Agile delivery and close stakeholder engagement. His background includes teaching programming at university and early project work automating and visualizing sensor data, highlighting a long-standing interest in turning complex data into actionable interfaces. Colleagues value him for delivering foundational, reusable solutions rather than one-off fixes.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology with Honours Class I Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology with Honours Class I Computer Software Engineering at James Cook University
English, NorwegianGithub contributions (1)
Jdhaimson/abcmusicplayer
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:71 commits in 1 month
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