Hello! My name is Chris and I'm a software developer from Edinburgh. I currently work at WheelHouse Software with my buddy Blair Harper, where I'm largely responsible for technical practice on our software consulting projects.

I've been very into programming since I was a teenager, and went to study Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. (As far as I can tell, Informatics is the same thing as Computer Science, it basically just takes longer to explain to people what I studied).

While I was studying, I got to spend a summer on the Isle of Skye working for Sitekit. I got lucky here - this was just 1 year after the App Store had launched, and they decided to put me in charge of building an iOS app for the ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne.

I was fortunate to meet some very cool people who were also keen to do some freelancing work. Together we formed a little 3-person software agency called Makexist, and did various fun projects late at night.

I got quite lucky with my supervisor (Stephen Gilmore) and did my Masters dissertation on something I was very passionate about - accessible technology. You can read the whole thing here (Stevie Wonder quote and all): Talking Buses: A navigation-assistance app for blind and partially-sighted users. My main research finding was that the bar for accessibility was extremely low in 2014.

After graduating I moved from Scotland to Sydney, where I worked at a company called InterSystems on their healthcare information management system, TrakCare. I got lucky and convinced them to let me work as part of a small team responsible for rebuilding the architecture between the backend and frontend. This was back in 2014, so I learned a lot about Javascript and AngularJS right when it was being reinvented every few months.

Then I moved over to Melbourne and joined an agency called Two Bulls. I was lucky here to be allocated to a project that became