Christopher Gammie
CEO Founder DanceCloud at Cloud Creativity Limited
York, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Gammie is a software leader and founder with 12 years of experience building and operating scalable SaaS platforms, currently CEO of DanceCloud where he designed a unique automated lead/follow balancing ticketing system that boosted organiser sales through the pandemic and beyond. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (PHP/Laravel, Ember.js/React) with cloud infrastructure strategy and Agile delivery, consistently driving sprint completion and predictable releases. His career spans national intelligence and law enforcement analytics to commercial product leadership, giving him uncommon strengths in stakeholder management, compliance (GDPR/PCI) and high-stakes project delivery. As an engineering lead he has modernised teams around TDD, DDD and performance improvements, and contributed to open-source projects such as ember-bootstrap and laravel-json-api. He enjoys mentoring engineers and cultivating candid, learning-focused cultures that lift junior talent into senior roles. Outside work he’s an outgoing swing dance teacher, tennis fan and cinema enthusiast — a blend of analytical rigour and people-first leadership.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), History, Bachelor of Arts (BA), History at University of CambridgeEpsom College
Github Skills (14)
php10
javascript10
bootstra10
json-api10
laravel10
bootstrap10
eloquent10
ember10
laravel-mix10
dependency-injection9
ember-addon9
object-oriented-programming9
database-design7
testing6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudcreativity/laravel-json-api
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
JSON API (jsonapi.org) package for Laravel applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 5 reviews, 909 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher implemented several back-end features related to a JSON API for a Laravel application. They introduced dependency injection to the hydrator and store in the controller, which allowed for more flexibility. Furthermore, they made improvements to the Eloquent adapter, including adding support for has-one-through, allowing for a cleaner and more efficient implementation. The user also focused on the addition of polymorphic relation scenarios, making the relations more dynamic.
json-apilaravelphp
ember-bootstrap/ember-bootstrap
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Ember-cli addon for using Bootstrap as native Ember components.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the `ember-bootstrap` addon by adding new features and addressing existing bugs. Their contributions include implementing a switch control component and updating related tests and layouts. Additionally, the user fixed a validation bug in the form component and added tests to verify its behavior. They also worked on updating the documentation to reflect changes made to the form elements and controls.
bootstrapember-cli-addonember-componentsemberember-addon
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