Chris Allmark

An adept technology leader, a pragmatic software engineering manager, a certified agile coach and a full-stack software developer with experience across a diverse range of business sectors including banking, broadcasting, logistics, manufacturing, publishing, retail, social networking, telecommunications, telematics & utilities. A passionate advocate of agile & lean software engineering who has worked with leading brands, including ASOS, Which?, The Economist, The Financial Times, MySpace and Nickelodeon. As giffgaff’s Head of Software Engineering is responsible for their core systems and leading the transformation of a monolithic application stack to a microservice-based architecture, deployed on-demand to a cloud-native environment. A certified scrum developer (CSD), scrum master (CSM) & scrum professional (CSP) that thrives on a challenge with a broad range of technical and leadership skills. Works across the entire software development lifecycle, designing and developing an array of application architectures but specialising in distributed microservice-based systems. Currently looking for a challenging position with a forward-thinking organisation as either chief technology officer, head of software engineering or software development manager. Ideally helping cross-functional teams to continuously deploy cloud-native, observable, resilient & scalable, JavaScript-based applications with RESTful APIs.