Chris Knowles

Front Office Platform Lead @Brevan Howard

London, GB
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WORK HISTORY

Mar 2024 — Present

Front Office Platform Lead @Brevan Howard

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London, GB

Producing a refined AWS based platform for strategic quant dev and portfolio manager projects- Reduced the onboarding time for new internal customers to the AWS platform from months to hours with repeatable patterns- Re-designed CICD pipelines to provide reusability and reduce internal customer confusion- Provided recommendations on how departments could collaborate in more effective ways and implemented some of those changes, for example to inner source more- Simplified the maintenance of several systems by removing unnecessary complexity and in cases decommissioning entirely.

EDUCATION

2001 — 2005

Imperial College London

MEng (First-class honours)

1997 — 2001

The King's School Macclesfield

GCE S-Level, GCE A-Levels, GCSEs

SKILLS

Agile Project ManagementSoftware Project ManagementSoftware DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringJavaAmazon Web Services (Aws)RestAgile MethodologiesScrumJavascriptDigital MediaSoftware ArchitectureSoftware DesignTeam CoordinationTeam LeadershipObject Oriented DesignHtmlCssAjaxJunitMobile DevicesAgileJiraServer ArchitectureProject CoordinationProject DeliveryProject PlanningXmlCassandraNosqlMysqlGithubSubversionReliabilityAttention to DetailConsciousnessSelf ManagementSoftware ImplementationSoft SkillsCoordination

ABOUT CHRIS KNOWLES

Technology leader with 20+ years’ experience spanning team leadership, cloud architecture, software engineering, developer experience and infrastructure. In the last 5 years, held roles ranging from leading a team of 45 engineers to being an individual contributor. Proven ability to scale high-performing distributed teams, deliver robust platforms, unify processes, and contribute hands-on. Focused on driving measurable business outcomes through simplification and automation. Experience managing people outside of direct team or function.

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