Summary
Christopher Graney-ward is a Senior Developer with eight years' practical experience building and rescuing production web platforms, currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne. He combines a university background in Computer Science and AI with hands-on expertise across full-stack JavaScript, Java, C, SQL, ML/deep learning and infrastructure, having implemented scalable backend rewrites and CI/Docker pipelines. Christopher has a track record of identifying and eliminating costly inefficiencies—such as reindexing and view-counting bottlenecks at 3speak—while independently designing, testing and deploying end-to-end solutions. He has founded Paritae, served as a contractor migrating legacy systems to Next.js/Nest.js using DDD and SOLID, and mentors junior engineers. Notably, he delivered a GPU-accelerated hate-speech detection API during his research role, bridging academic ML work into production-ready tooling.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence at Northumbria University