Kyle Chapman
Lead Engineer at Clarity in Technology
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKyle Chapman is a Lead Engineer based in London with nine years of experience delivering pragmatic, user-focused software across e-commerce, government and education. He combines hands-on development (Ruby on Rails, React, Elixir, Clojure) with strong delivery practices—TDD, continuous delivery, pair programming—and often helps customers from infrastructure through UX. A founder-operator as well as an engagement lead, he ships SaaS products for schools and bespoke checkouts for clients like AkzoNobel while teaching teams better ways of working. Known for preferring simple, maintainable solutions over clever ones, he is comfortable translating between technical detail and plain English to align product, business and engineering. He pairs a philosophy background with a Distinction MSc in Computer Science, bringing both critical thinking and rigorous engineering to product improvements.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy at University of Essex
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Github Skills (66)
django9
laravel9
html9
ruby9
mvc9
admin9
allocation9
rails9
tdd9
mongodb9
idris8
activerecord8
ruby-on-rails8
logger8
mtp8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kjdchapman/GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Starting code for the GildedRose Refactoring Kata in many programming languages.
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
refactoring-kataprogramming-languagesrefactoringlanguagesgildedrose
madetech/experimental-extreme-ci
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:39 pushes in 1 day
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