Contact
If you want to get in touch with me then you can do so in a number of ways:
- LinkedIn: chriswestcott
- Email: chris@westcott.dev
- GitHub: ChrisWestcottUK
If you want to get in touch with me then you can do so in a number of ways:
Proficient, driven, technical and business minded, with broad industry experience. Adept with high-level decision making as well as hands-on execution within the earliest stages of startups through to established companies.
Confident leading teams and developing solutions employing engineering best practices. Guided by latest industry advances whilst remaining pragmatic in delivery.
Lead on a number of full stack features for the Nova product within the smallest and highest outputting engineering team on the Nova product.
Team was shut down after withdrawing from the UK.
Responsible for architectural design and development as the company has moved from initial product launch towards growth including several funding rounds including recent Series A.
GCP, Typescript, Node.js, CircleCI, Terraform, TurboRepo, Jest, Heroku, Postgres, GCP Datastore, GCP Pub/Sub
Working as a part of the Payments and Sports Data teams within the “Netflix for Sports”. A very high-scale and high-demand service with several millions subscribers globally (7 countries). With peak loads in millions of users for large live events.
Working alongside industry experts in both Frontend and Backend development. Involved in architecture, development, code reviews, testing, and 3rd-line support of systems. Aiding with recruitment by performing technical interviews.
AWS (Lambda, Kinesis, SNS, DynamoDB, SQS, Rekognition), NodeJS, ReactJS, OpenAPI, Drone CI, Terraform, Serverless, Docker, Scrum, Kanban, Jest, Stryker
Co-founder of online property auction marketplace. Responsible for all aspects of moving the technology from prototype to production and preparing for growth.
NodeJS, ReactJS, MongoDB, CircleCI, Redux, Docker, Microservices, Tape (test harness)
Working closely with founder to rapidly prototype several products related to scientific research to help find market fit (Penelope AI) and make a difference in the field.
NodeJS, ReactJS, Python, Markdown, Pandoc
Scrum Master and Developer in the New Features team. Key additions allowed company to expand into US and Australia.
C#, JavaScript, KnockoutJS, AngularJS, GPS, high-scale, high-demand, SQL Server, SVN, Scrum, Scrum Master, N-Tier
Sole developer of backend for SIERA a RESTful API and reporting engine. Supported Front-End Developers producing frontend JavaScript libraries and CTO with initial product.
C#, Vanilla JS, Sencha Touch, SQL Server, git, REST
Technical lead for Jemmac’s Sapphire Trend, OPC Failover, OPC Net View some projects for the petrochemical and fleet logistics companies. Included onsite work and travel. C#, ASP.NET, C++, SQL Server, Visual Source Safe, SVN, Client-Server
Software team leader and hands on developer for C2 product. Multi-discipline development environment alongside hardware and electrical engineers. Software control of device as well as UI and external software interfaces. Working closely with all stakeholders and customers. Included onsite work and travel.
C++, ASP.NET, C#, VB, SQL Server, Visual Source Safe
Lead developer for company’s main bespoke offering. Worked closely with customer agreeing specifications before designing, developing, testing and releasing completed projects back to them. Also responsible for in-house 3D library.
C++, ASP Classic
Civil HUD: Developer. C, Intel i960 assembler
Eurofighter Typhoon: Unit tester and founding member of internal tools development team. Ada, 68000 Assembly, VB6, VAX/VMS, DCL.
Boeing 777-300: Unit tester during summer placement. Ada, 68000 assembler, x86 assembler.
B.Sc (Hons) Software Engineering 2(ii)