Chris Townsend

Chris Townsend

Wireless Alarm Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Go Engineer | Passionate about tech | Mentor for Emerging Developers

  • Education

    • Hereford and Ludlow College

      2004 - 2006
      Foundation degree Information Technology

      Study Foundation Degree in ICT

    • University of Gloucestershire

      2011 - 2014
      BSc Information communication and technology 2:1

      Activities and Societies: RAG, Tone Radio, Elections A course that gave me a various background, from web development to forensic technologies. I completed a dissertation based on MySQL injection and found my passion for back end web development

  • Experience

    • Alarm Radio Monitoring

      Feb 2010 - Aug 2013
      Wireless Alarm Engineer

      Troubleshoot Nurse call and Panic Attack SystemsWork in TeamsPlanning InstallationsInstallation of nursecall and panic attack systems.Maintenance of nursecall, PA and Fire Alarm systems

    • Next Group PLC

      Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
      Replen

      Stock

    • The Partnership - Creative Communications

      Jul 2014 - Apr 2017
      Technical Lead

      Technical Lead: August 2016 - PresentFull stack developmentPlanning and development of functional requirementsPlan and design system architectureCode controlSchedulingMentoring other developersLaravel specialismNoSQL (MongoDB)Web Developer: July 2014 - Aug 2016Back-end lead developerTechnical specificationsDeploying applications on Google App EngineSupporting two junior developersLaravel Framework and PHP

    • Intouch Games

      Apr 2017 - Sept 2017
      PHP Web Developer
    • PM Connect

      Sept 2017 - Apr 2020

      Senior member of the product team

      • Lead Product Engineer

        Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
      • Senior Developer

        Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
      • Web Developer

        Sept 2017 - Apr 2020
    • Gymshark

      Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
      Senior Software Engineer
    • PM Connect

      Oct 2020 - Nov 2022

      Continuing my role as Senior Software Engineer at PM Connect, I am now responsible for our Nearshore teams (Portugal).

      • Nearshore Lead Software Engineer

        Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
      • Senior Integrations Engineer

        Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
    • Form3

      Nov 2022 - now
      Senior Go Engineer

      Form3 provides a large scale multi-cloud payment platform to financial institutions like Nationwide to access various payment schemes around the world

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • XRY Mobile forensic tools

      XRY
    • AWS Certified AI Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      May 2025
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    • MongoDB M101P

      MongoDB, Inc.
      Aug 2016
      View certificate certificate
    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Apr 2024
      View certificate certificate
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Chris Townsend
      Best Use of Technology - Print on demand Project Express and Star (http://www.expressandstar.com) http://businessawards.expressandstar.com/ Jun 2017 Technical Lead for project with Dudley Building Society - Launched December 2016
    • Awarded to Chris Townsend
      Best Society Event - Chris and Jez Radiothon University of Gloucestershire May 2014 On March 30th 2014 Myself and Jeremy Hodges conducted a 65 hour radiothon for charity where we had to be hosting non-stop hours a day. We had promotion from:BBC Herefordshire and WorcesterBBC GloucestershireGloucestershire EchoWe were raising money for Hope Support Services
  • Volunteer Experience

    • PR and Promo

      Issued by Tone Radio on Dec 2013
      Tone RadioAssociated with Chris Townsend