Christopher Orchard
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Orchard is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Bristol with a decade of experience building and operating resilient systems at Just Eat Takeaway.com. He progressed through engineering and operations roles into SRE, embedding performance testing and observability to drive reliability at scale across large consumer platforms. Skilled in both software development and service operations, he brings a pragmatic full-stack perspective informed by early work on mission-critical C# command-and-control systems for UK fire services. Christopher pairs a first-class Computer Science degree with hands-on experience in CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response, enabling faster, safer deployments. He favors measurable reliability improvements over heroic fixes, and his career shows a steady trajectory from developer to senior SRE within a high-traffic production environment. Outside of core SRE duties, he has a background in mobile and web application projects, reflecting a breadth that helps bridge product and platform teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science with Industrial Year, 1st Class, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science with Industrial Year, 1st Class at The University of HullHigh School, High School at Bitterne Park Secondary SchoolBTEC Extended Diploma, Computer Science, D*D*D*, BTEC Extended Diploma, Computer Science, D*D*D* at Eastleigh College
English
Github Skills (43)
zendesk-api10
netcoreapp10
testing10
stress10
websocket10
browser10
stress-testing10
api10
aws10
lambda10
serverless10
fluent-interface10
load-testing10
wrapper10
api-client9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LoadData/ZendeskApiClient
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Api Client for working with Zendesk
Contributions:27 pushes, 23 branches in 8 months
api-clientapizendesknodejs
cjsaurusrex/AdventOfCode2023
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 days
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