Chris Barber
Principal Software Architect at Sage
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Barber is a Principal Software Architect with nearly two decades of experience designing and delivering scalable, high-availability enterprise systems for Sage’s Business Cloud. He combines hands-on engineering (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript) with platform-level thinking—driving CI/CD, scripted and serverless deployments, and reusable UI/component frameworks that support global product variants. A seasoned team lead and mentor, he’s built training workshops, formalised release processes, and reduced single-point dependencies across distributed teams. His background ranges from founding technical roles at a web agency to leading platform architecture at Sage, giving him both product-minded pragmatism and operational rigour. Notably, he has bridged docs, tooling and platform work—integrating content with GitHub and Elasticsearch—to streamline localization and developer onboarding.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bradford Grammar SchoolBSc, Computing Science, BSc, Computing Science at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
English
Stackoverflow
658reputation
85kreached
19answers
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Github Skills (82)
ui-components10
component-library10
react10
psych9
rails-i18n9
code-coverage9
html8
django8
yaml8
codeship8
style-dictionary8
ruby8
php8
css8
npm8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Sage/validation_profiler
Aug 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 11 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years 11 months
Sage/handler_registerable
Mar 2018 - Aug 2023
A ruby gem which provides a mechanism for common code to collaborate with a handler which is designed to meet a more concrete requirement
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 years 6 months
ruby-on-railsmechanismrequirementconcreteruby-gem
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