Christopher Maddock
Head Of Product And Engineering at Unstructured
England, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Maddock is a product and engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling teams at the intersection of AI, product and agencies—currently Head of Product and Engineering at unstructured.io after leading product, engineering and forward-deployed teams at Primer.ai. He has run P&Ls and grown engineering organisations from single digits to 150 people as GM at AKQA, founded a successful UK healthcare startup, and repeatedly moved between hands-on engineering and executive product roles. Technically rooted in .NET and test automation, he is a former NUnit core team contributor and has contributed to prominent open-source projects like Cake and NUnit to improve build and test robustness. Comfortable operating across San Francisco and the UK, he combines startup grit, agency-scale delivery, and deep product-engineering fluency to turn ambiguous AI problems into production systems. Less obvious: he has a track record of promoting engineering best practices while shipping client-facing innovation at scale, making him as effective in driving revenue and P&L as in shaping technical direction.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Liverpool John Moores University
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Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
cakephp10
test-driven-design10
testing10
net10
nunit10
test-framework10
dotnet10
asp-net10
tdd10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
unit-test10
test-automation10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
nunit/nunit
Feb 2016 - Nov 2020
NUnit Framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 170 commits, 173 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the NUnit framework by enhancing its runtime framework and test capabilities. They introduced properties to the runtime framework, improved .NET version detection, and added exception handling for unmanaged DLLs. Furthermore, they added new test cases, particularly focusing on optional parameters, and made modifications to the TestCaseAttribute to handle these scenarios. Their work also includes fixing issues related to test execution and result reporting, with an emphasis on improving the overall robustness and testing of the NUnit framework.
dotnettestingtest-frameworkc-sharpnunit-framework
cake-build/cake
Apr 2016 - Mar 2018
:cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
Role in this project:Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on refining the build automation system. Their contributions include updating XBuild tool references, implementing custom error messages for NUnit/NUnit3 tools, and removing an obsolete argument. Additionally, they modified the ReportUnit project link. These changes suggest an emphasis on improving the project's build process, error handling, and dependency management.
cake-buildbuild-automation-toolc-sharpdotnetcorenunit
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