Summary
Cris Thompson is an application and web developer with eight years of professional experience, currently building products at Octophin Digital while running a freelance games project and parenting full time. He blends creative design (BA in Mixed Media Fine Arts) with solid software engineering skills honed across PHP, APIs, and AWS migrations at Tuxedo Money Solutions and earlier agencies. Beyond commercial work he spent two years in Panama managing a field station and co-founding the Big Wasp Survey, reflecting a hands-on interest in citizen science and conservation. Comfortable spanning front-end, back-end, and system architecture, Cris brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach that turns diverse experiences—art, games design, field biology—into practical web applications.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ba(Hons), Mixed Media Fine Arts, Ba(Hons), Mixed Media Fine Arts at University of Westminster
HND, Software Engineering, HND, Software Engineering at Brighton University