Christopher Pearson
Principal Engineer, Prime Video at Amazon
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Pearson is a Principal Engineer at Prime Video with over a decade of hands-on engineering and technology leadership across high-scale consumer systems and mission-critical financial infrastructure. He has led large organisational transformations—shifting siloed teams to automation-first DevOps cultures—while delivering cloud-native platforms, data products, and multi-million euro cost savings in highly regulated environments. His background uniquely spans tactical details (data centre cabling to Kubernetes orchestration) and strategic roles (IT strategy, budgeting, and product commercialisation), informed by 19 years’ domain expertise in capital markets and derivatives. Known for pairing a pragmatic, hands-on engineering approach with strong emphasis on resilience, security and inter-team collaboration, he has driven production deployments of auto-scaled calculation engines in AWS/GKE within strict compliance regimes. He helped grow and exit a company (Formicary to Accenture) and continues to enjoy building useful developer tooling and automation that make consultants’ and engineers’ lives easier. Outside work he balances family life with community leadership, FPV drone racing and all-grain brewing—reflecting a practical tinkerer’s curiosity that often surfaces in his technical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
1st MEng Computing (Software Engineering), 1st MEng Computing (Software Engineering) at Imperial College London
Github Skills (3)
java7
configurations3
targets2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
formicary/remoterun
Dec 2013 - Mar 2015
Java remote process execution library
Contributions:4 releases, 86 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 3 months
javaexecution
echinus/ranker
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 9 days
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