Summary
Christopher Owen is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader with 16 years of experience building cloud-native, scalable systems across consultancies, finance, telco and media. Currently VP Solutions Architect at GIC after roles coaching developer teams at Citi and shaping platform and DevOps practices at Standard Chartered and Uncharted, he blends hands-on implementation experience (Scala, Java, Elixir, C#) with pragmatic delivery and transformation skills. He has a strong consultancy pedigree from ThoughtWorks, Equal Experts and McKinsey, repeatedly helping organisations adopt microservices, DevOps and agile practices while shipping critical platform work. An occasional open-source contributor, his .NET port work on the Less CSS library highlights a willingness to dive into language ports and library internals to solve real engineering problems. Outside work he’s an avid traveller, often moving between countries as quickly as he moves between technical stacks.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Hull