Dean Chapman
Head Of Platform Engineering
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Chapman is a pragmatic engineering leader and coding architect with over two decades of hands-on experience and 13 years in senior platform roles, currently heading Platform Engineering at Kroo Bank. He blends deep expertise in JVM languages (Java, Scala, Clojure), modern JavaScript/React, databases (Oracle, Datomic, SQL) and cloud-native delivery practices to shrink feedback loops, eliminate flaky workflows and enable one-click deployments. A former CTO and cloud architect, he excels at turning legacy systems into resilient, test-driven platforms while coaching teams to ship reliably. Increasingly focused on smart contracts and blockchain, Dean is an active Ethereum developer and crypto investor who brings that frontier thinking back into platform design. His career traces production-critical roles across banking and fintech, and his philosophy—more commits better than none—underscores a bias for iterative progress and pragmatic engineering.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Database Administrator, Certified Database Administrator at Oracle EducationCertified Java Programmer, Certified Java Programmer at Sun EducationBSc(Hons) Electronic Imaging, BSc(Hons) Electronic Imaging at University of Bradford
Github Skills (123)
converting10
non-blocking10
truffle10
xsd10
xml-schema10
reactive9
javascript9
solidity9
wallet9
event-loop9
high-performance9
react-native-app9
streaming9
concurrency9
smart-contracts9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
p14n/events-unbundled
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Using the same core handler/projector/resolver functions with different CQRS stacks
Contributions:5 PRs, 52 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 5 months
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