My name is Chris Townsend, I have worked in the software industry since 2014 and been in love with programming since I was 10 years old. I have had various roles in my career from a senior software engineer all the way to Engineer lead. I have worked for in-house software houses and design agencies, and predominantly focus on the backend stack. My main focus now is Go, but I also have over 7 years of experience using PHP, Symfony and Laravel.

• 💼 I'm currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Form3. Focused on their payment platform supporting schemes from around the world. You can find out more about Form3 here

• 🥞 Current Stack

  • Go - 90%
  • Terraform
  • Github and Actions
  • Multi-cloud Kubernetes (Azure, GCP and AWS)
  • Docker
  • NATS Jetstream
  • PostgreSQL and CockroachDB
  • Microservices
  • Minio
  • IBM MQ

• 😄 Pronouns: He/Him
• ⚡ Fun fact: I have a school report from when I was 10 years old which states in the personal comments section "When I grow up, I would like to be a computer programmer"
• 📻 I once did a 65 hour radiothon for charity!
• 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on Go or PHP open source projects