Christian Catchpole Email & Phone Number

With an extensive career as a developer and technical leader, Christian has broad experience in delivery of modern, cloud native solutions. His talents span low-level electronics and robotics to high-level development methodologies, planning and execution.Christian specialises in the design and development of core infrastructure. Throughout his career, entrusted as technical product owner for several high-profile business systems. Believes quality architecture is led by working example and based firmly in technical reality. Has a sense for appropriate levels of engineering, allowing systems to organically develop with minimal technical debt. Christian engages well with stakeholders, able to negotiate and deliver value by gaining a deep understanding of the business domain. Christian has a sharp wit which he uses to create a friendly, inclusive and motivated team environment. Christian has published a variety of open-source projects including a Java robotics library, an embedded audio synthesiser and tool chains such as a Java to C++ cross compiler. He also develops in languages such as Go, C/C++ and Assembler for various platforms including AVR.Christian's various personal projects are available on GitHub: https://github.com/slipperysealA notable personal project is NYX, a marine robotics project. A satellite tracked autonomous water craft to travel long distances. Christian has delivered presentations on this project, including at the Norwegian Developers Conference and the NuttX (embedded RTOS) Conference.NDC Sydney Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwT0YBPzMxoNuttX Online Workshop Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66wnU3FBIzsChristian trains in a school of Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū Iaido, Japanese Swordsmanship. He holds the rank of Nidan (2nd dan) and competes annually in Kyoto, Japan.

Listed skills include Java Enterprise Edition, Java, Software Development Methodologies, Software Development, and 10 others.

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  Senior Software Engineer

  Canva

  Feb 2021 - Present - Australia

  As a member of the Server Platform Team, develops core technologies on which Canva's backend services run. These Java based stacks serve the high-traffic loads of the many backend services within the Canva product. Hosted on AWS, billions of requests and petabytes of data are serviced on this platform. Working in a small, agile team we also have many cross-cutting responsibilies with infrastructure and the application teams. Employed as a fully remote worker.