Chris Bower

Chris is an experienced full-stack C# ASP.NET web developer with strong JavaScript skills, including React and Redux. He has been instrumental in developing high-traffic sites, from used vehicle locators to high-transaction ticketing sites. He has also worked on the basket and checkout for some of Europe’s largest e-commerce sites and performance-critical mobile betting sites.

Chris has demonstrated excellent team leadership skills by supporting and mentoring other developers. He has experience working in an agile environment and always works hard to deliver applications to the highest standards. Chris is passionate about learning the latest development technologies and sharing ideas and best practices with colleagues.

He has thrived while working on extremely complex development stacks that require investigations and an ability to problem-solve independently and as part of a team.

Chris has delivered some key projects, including making the Next owned sites compliant with EU cookie legislation, delivering key projects around PDS2 payments, significantly improving the simplicity of the checkout process, and delivering the payments microservice for Bet365.

Nov 2021 – Present

Next - Contract Software Developer - Remote (Leicester)

• Working on a large complex MVC application. Requiring solid .net and MVC knowledge to develop on and improve the application.
• Created a web api for a consent application that involved making the application performant and resilient and creating an end to end system that through Active Batch and SSIS fed the data science team relevant data. This helped deliver Next a compliant website. 
• Using Typescript extensively for work on the Next bespoke UI implementation to deliver some key improvements relating to the compliance of the site..
• Using GTM to handle the interactions between the OneTrust integration and Google Analytics to enable Next to report on key funnel information relating to the customer's journey to report and action on the reports findings.
• Created QA tooling using React and Redux, around the OneTrust system. This greatly improved the reliability of the content being delivered as well as the time to live.

Apr 2020 – Nov 2021

AO.com - Full Stack Developer - Manchester

• Responsible for the improvements and upkeep of a React / Redux front end and .Net back end basket and checkout application. Delivered important projects like PDS2 for card payments and 
• Using agile methodologies and scrum principles to take control of the backlog and create value per sprint.
• Embracing AWS cloud computing and serverless technologies in AWS with lambda, step functions and DynamoDB.
• Using Terraform and code pipeline to create infrastructure as code to deploy any platform changes.

Apr 2018 – April 2020

bet365 - Contract Software Developer - Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

• Working for one of the largest online gambling firms, on a cutting edge website.
• Responsible for developing Members services, including Bank, History, Notifications and many other areas.
• Using C#, MVC with Web API Microservices and the latest modern patterns and practices.
• Front end TypeScript development and the use of Git for source control.
• T-Sql procedure development to strict optimisation. 

Staffordshire University, S-O-T, Staffs BA(Hons) Interactive Systems Design

Westwood High School, Leek, Staffs A-Level PE and Design & Technology

Westwood High School, Leek, Staffs 10 GCSE’s grade A-C