Chris Northwood
Technical Leader and Author
Hello! This is the website and portfolio of Chris Northwood (I'm sometimes found online using the handle laser or a variation and I hold the radio callsigns M3NTW and 2E0NTW).
I'm currently working as the Head of Development for Tech for Good startup Culture Shift and help run BarCamp Manchester.
I'm standing in the Piccadilly ward in Manchester for the Liberal Democrats.
I use Twitter quite a lot, and I occasionally blog at Medium. You can also get in touch with me using the details below.
I've written a book: The Full Stack Developer, published by Apress. It's the book I wish I had when I started as a junior developer, and covers almost everything I've learnt in my career so far. You can buy it from Amazon.
What I believe
Delivery
- I believe in Continuous Delivery in a DevOps team
- I believe in Agile projects and Kanban
- I'm a polyglot programmer, working across the full web stack, who believes in using the best tool for the job
Teamwork
- I work in cross-functional teams focussed on delivery: swarming on problems, rather than siloed roles and responsibilities
- I believe that software delivery should be integrated into the business, not a separate team
- I believe in effective code reviews
Development
- I build accessibility and security in from the start
- I use Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration
- I believe in working at a sustainable pace
What I've done
Mosaic
Software Developer
The Trial Platform
Digital Transformation Project Lead
Object-based Production Tools In the Cloud
Technical Architect
Published works: Northwood, C., & Wadge, R. (2018). An Architecture for Cloud-Based IP Video Production Tools. SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, 127(5), 32-37.
Single Operator Mixing Application
Product Owner
Cook-Along Kitchen Experience
Technical Lead and Architect
Paradigm Shift
Full-Stack Developer
BBC Taster
Technical Lead
Manchester Tech Nights
Co-founder
Timelines
Technical Lead
BBC iWonder
Full-Stack Developer
BBC Bitesize
Full-Stack Developer
Connected Red Button
Full-Stack Developer
Games Grid
Back-end Developer
Mobile Oxford
Full-Stack Developer
Nouse
Technical Lead
Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux
QA Engineer & Intern Developer
What I know
MSc Computer Science with Speech & Language Processing (University of Sheffield)
Final result: Performance with Distinction
Awarded the Fretwell-Downing prize for performance in thesis: Temporal Expression Recognition and Normalisation in Python.
BEng Computer Science (University of York)
Final result: Second class honours, first division