Chris Northwood
Tech Lead - Public Digital Platforms
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Northwood is a technology leader and full-stack engineer with 16 years' experience delivering scalable web products, site reliability, and systems architecture across research, public service broadcasting, startups and government. Currently Tech Lead for Public Digital Platforms at Citizens Advice and a Manchester councillor, she blends hands-on engineering with product strategy to lead teams focused on user-centred outcomes. She authored The Full Stack Developer and has a track record of moving organisations to product-led delivery—rearchitecting Culture Shift to a serverless SaaS that helped scale to >£1M ARR. Her career spans Oxford research projects, BBC R&D platform work, agile consultancy at ThoughtWorks and practical governance roles (GDPR/Cyber Essentials/ISO 27001), reflecting an unusual mix of technical craft, compliance ownership and civic engagement.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of YorkMaster’s Degree Computer Science with Speech and Language Processing, Master’s Degree Computer Science with Speech and Language Processing at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
sentry10
raven10
drm10
mss10
python10
amazon-cognito10
clair10
mobile-web10
ember10
aws-s310
javascript10
oci-image10
django10
hue10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cnorthwood/cjn.me.uk
May 2015 - Mar 2023
My new website
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
cnorthwood/gocd-tls-auth
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
Use TLS client certificates to authenticate with Go
Contributions:4 releases, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 3 months
client-certificatego
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