Chris Small

• ASP.NET MVC/Core
• .NET Core and frameworks
• TDD: XUnit, NUnit
• IoC, Service buses (SNS, Rabbit)
• SQL Server, Redis, DynamoDB

• Docker
• Hashistack
• Powershell
• Bash
• AWS, VMWare, Google Cloud

• HTML 5
• VueJS, React, CSS, LESS/SASS
• NodeJS
• ECMAScript
• Typescript

• Git
• Teamcity
• Octopus
• Kubernetes, AWS ECS
• Appveyor, Travis, Gitlab

• Various AWS-based event driven architecture projects using ML and experimentation approaches.

• Worked in several roles in the organisation: Principal developer, Managing developer and Senior developer.
• In conjunction with the Packt work, my specialism was .NET Core and ASP.NET Core with Docker, and automation of the build process.
• Part of an agile team responsible for a Docker/.NET Core based AWS ECS API serving up to 80,000 requests per minute, including SNS/SQS event based system for managing various job-based events.
• Responsibility for devops work, owning the releases and monitoring, and pushing towards CD.
• The company is mostly AWS, managing AWS resources via Terraform, with additional Bash and Powershell for orchestration.
• I was one of the main contributors to the www.github.com/totaljobsgroup organisation, open sourcing parts of our code base to encourage open collaboration, most notably the Syringe project.
• Strong advocate for clean code and good, simple technical documentation in the Github Enterprise projects - I converted all the existing documentation to Markdown and then onto Github Enterprise and push for living (but minimal) documentation on all projects.
• I worked on most of the Totaljobs tech stack over the years noteably: an email service that sends millions of emails daily, content service for site wide HTML/CSS/JS and a Salesforce based order fulfillment service.

Open University January 2007 — January 2010

UWE Bristol January 1998 — January 2001

Tiger Award

Docker for ASP.NET Core MVC (video) March 2018