Christopher Grounds
Software Engineering Manager at Switch2 Energy Limited
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Grounds is a software engineering manager with nine years of hands-on experience building and leading teams across cloud, web and mobile stacks. He champions engineering excellence and extreme programming practices—TDD, pair/mob programming, CI/CD and fast-feedback loops—to create autonomous teams that ship reliable, well-tested systems. Christopher has driven greenfield projects and strategic technical roadmaps, led a Databricks migration, and designed event-driven serverless infrastructure on AWS that underpins financial event processing. He combines deep technical breadth (Haskell, TypeScript, React, Node, AWS) with strong stakeholder facilitation—using event-storming and Wardley mapping—to align strategy and delivery. Known as a pragmatic coach and mentor, he accelerates team capability while maintaining a focus on measurable business value.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Linguistics and Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree Linguistics and Philosophy at University of AberdeenUniversity College London
Github Skills (92)
adaptation8
aws8
mercury8
webpages7
servant7
get-started7
hackage7
cabal7
cors7
ghc7
npm7
haskell6
starlark6
color-scheme6
javascript6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
chrisgrounds/random-name-generator
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
chrisgrounds/cv
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
My CV
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 37 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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