Summary
Chris Aitchison is a seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience delivering customer-first digital banking and payments platforms, currently heading Product and Customer Platforms at Bendigo Bank. He helped build Up into Australia’s most-loved digital bank—shipping multiple times a day via automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and empowered, outcome-driven teams—and brings that people-first culture to enterprise banking. His background spans CTO and engineering leadership roles across fintech and consultancy, plus earlier expertise in enterprise content management and solution architecture. A former Australian Army servicemember, he blends operational discipline and resource management with product-led engineering. He focuses on secure, scalable online banking experiences that protect customer prosperity while enabling innovation. Less obvious: he often credits culture as the critical “secret sauce” that turns engineering practices into beloved products.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer