Chris Parkinson Email & Phone Number

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for defining and leading the strategic technical direction across a number of Sky’s cross cutting enablement platforms along with mentoring and supporting the wider department in improving our engineering culture and standards.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Technical leadership across multiple agile squads within the Digital Service tribe with line management and mentoring of senior developers.Clear understanding of roadmaps and longer-term strategic business goals, providing technical direction and leadership toward the delivery of excellent quality and sustainable software minimising technical debt.Expert proficiency within Sky's technology stack, guiding and supporting with the delivery of software for high capacity, high traffic, high availability websites/systems.Key role towards the identification and adoption of new technologies and approaches working towards improving the wider technical estate, associated processes and overall development experienceFacilitating and supporting with the technical analysis, solution design and integration-based phase of deliveryProactive role with regards to the step-up and ongoing maintenance of effective monitoring and alerting solutions across the Digital Service estate.Provide clear direction and leadership with regards to the handling of Production issues and live incidents.Support with the recruitment process, identifying gaps, playing an active role towards the recruitment of excellent candidates into technical roles.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

As before but with more responsibilities

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Full stack software engineer & chapter lead for online service / manage squad at Leeds Dock. Hands on development in Node / Koa, React, Redux, Sass, GraphQL / Apollo, Content Stack, Docker and the odd bit of Ruby as well as line-management responsibilities.

Halifax, United Kingdom

Lead developer on bespoke platforms for global insurance providers using .NET, C#, WebAPI, Cassandra and NCache. Involved hands on coding, code reviews, solution design, mentoring and introducing agile processes and branching strategies.

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Technical lead for CMS/EMS/E-Commerce development in Kentico & Umbraco. Responsible for defining best practises, coding standards and application architecture as well as hands on development and code reviews.

Bradford, United Kingdom

Full stack developer working on a number of financial systems using .NET, SQL, HTML, CSS. JavaScript. Umbraco and EpiServer

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Responsible for the day to day team leading and mentoring of the in-house web development team, ensuring high levels of coding standards and best practises along with introducing new technologies and development processes. Along with being hands on with development, my role allows me to work closely with the analysis and marketing teams in turning requirements into a product backlog or spec.

Employed as a .NET applications developer, I was responsible for developing and maintaining websites for high profile clients such as Hillarys, NUS and Matalan. This was a very fast paced agency environment where a quick and efficient turnaround of work was expected on a daily basis.

Employed as a .NET web developer to support and maintain websites for large automotive clients such as Harley Davidson, Mercedes and Skoda. I also had a supporting role in Flash development/animation.

Whilst employed predominantly as a .NET developer, I also performed general IT functions such as server maintenance, database backups and virus protection. In addition I was responsible for the maintenance of websites written in classic ASP and PHP.