Christopher Imrie
Co-Founder & Principal AI Engineer at RidgeLine.cloud
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristopher Imrie is a Principal Engineer specializing in MACH, composable commerce and digital retail with 13 years of experience helping brands like Burberry, Selfridges, Kingfisher and M&S modernize e-commerce platforms. Trained as an aerospace engineer, he blends systems thinking with hands-on architecture and implementation—from Commercetools and Apollo GraphQL Federation to serverless AWS microservices—driving digital transformation and high-velocity delivery. He’s led engineering teams and startups as a founder/CTO and director of engineering, building platforms designed to scale to enterprise volumes and supporting continuous deployment hundreds of times per day. Comfortable toggling between strategy and code, he’s repeatedly solved complex migration challenges (monolith-to-composable) while embedding automation, infrastructure-as-code and event-driven design. A proven retail-focused builder-for-hire, he pairs commercial empathy with technical rigor to turn ambitious commerce roadmaps into measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Aerospace Engineering at University of BathInternational Baccalaureate (37 points), International Baccalaureate (37 points) at St Julians School, Portugal
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (17)
expressionengine10
debugging8
react6
nist4
aws-cdk4
hypermedia2
aws2
cloud-infrastructure1
requirejs1
plugin1
addon1
cloud-development-kit1
php1
api1
infrastructure-as-code1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ckimrie/release-gateway-github-action
Apr 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
Release-Gateway/aws-cdk-constructs
Nov 2023 - Nov 2025
Enterprise ready AWS CDK constructs that are standards compliant with the CIS 1.4, NIST 800-53 Rev5
Contributions:5 reviews, 20 PRs, 68 pushes in 2 years
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