Kris Bloe
Lead Developer (L4) at Answer Digital
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Bloe is a Lead Developer with 11 years’ experience designing and delivering resilient, service-focused systems for public and private sector clients, currently driving Splunk-based observability and service integration for national NHS programmes. He blends hands-on engineering (Python, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes) with technical architecture and team leadership, having led squads that onboarded critical data streams and authored correlation searches used in live incident workflows. Past roles include large-scale CI/CD and microservice migrations, API validation for healthcare standards, and rebuilding full stacks under tight budgets, demonstrating strong systems thinking and stakeholder engagement. Kris holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and maths from the University of Leeds and has a flair for clear operational processes—his JIRA ticket-type redesign improved accountability across multi-squad delivery. Unusually, he’s also a twice UK laser tag gold medallist, hinting at tactical thinking and team play under pressure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ilford County High SchoolMSc, Artificial Intelligence, Maths, MSc, Artificial Intelligence, Maths at University of LeedsDavenant Foundation School
bsl
Github Skills (85)
mariadb-database10
terraform10
terraform-module10
jar10
azure10
4g10
mariadb-connector10
azure-resource-manager10
mariadb4j10
plc10
terraform-provider10
aws10
resource-manager10
database9
lte9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chrisbloe/azure-docs
Dec 2020 - Jul 2023
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 years 7 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
nhsconnect/FHIR-NRLS-API
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 106 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
api
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