Christopher Imrie
Principal Engineer - MACH, Composable Commerce & Digital Retail at Mindera
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristopher Imrie is a Principal Engineer specializing in MACH, composable commerce and digital retail with 13 years of experience helping brands like Burberry, Selfridges, Kingfisher and M&S modernize e-commerce platforms. Trained as an aerospace engineer, he blends systems thinking with hands-on architecture and implementation—from Commercetools and Apollo GraphQL Federation to serverless AWS microservices—driving digital transformation and high-velocity delivery. He’s led engineering teams and startups as a founder/CTO and director of engineering, building platforms designed to scale to enterprise volumes and supporting continuous deployment hundreds of times per day. Comfortable toggling between strategy and code, he’s repeatedly solved complex migration challenges (monolith-to-composable) while embedding automation, infrastructure-as-code and event-driven design. A proven retail-focused builder-for-hire, he pairs commercial empathy with technical rigor to turn ambitious commerce roadmaps into measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Aerospace Engineering at University of BathInternational Baccalaureate (37 points), International Baccalaureate (37 points) at St Julians School, Portugal
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (24)
unobtrusive7
expressionengine6
react5
debug5
debugging5
api4
rest3
aws3
render3
prototyping3
cloud-infrastructure2
development-kit2
hypermedia2
chain1
requirejs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Release-Gateway/aws-cdk-constructs
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Enterprise ready AWS CDK constructs that are standards compliant with the CIS 1.4, NIST 800-53 Rev5
Contributions:1 review, 19 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Release-Gateway/environment-identifier-action
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 months
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