About

Chris presenting on stage to a packed room at a Microsoft Tech Summit event — Speaking at a Microsoft Tech Summit event

Chris is a passionate developer advocate and technology enthusiast, with a specialism in web / cloud systems, and a keen interest in the developer community. He recently joined Moveworks — a ServiceNow company — in July 2026 as a Senior Staff Developer Advocate. Prior to that, he spent several years at GitHub as a Senior Program Manager of Developer Relations, partnering closely on strategy and operations with the DevRel leadership team. His background focuses on the enterprise space, having worked with a number of large organisations to help bridge the gap between traditional enterprise systems and development paradigms into modern DevOps practices and cloud-native platforms. He has worked with stakeholders in start-ups and enterprises from developers and system admins through to Heads of Division and CTOs.

Chris presenting on stage at GitHub Galaxy London 2024, gesturing mid-talk — Presenting at GitHub Galaxy, London 2024

At GitHub, Chris supported flagship community and enterprise events and became a trusted voice for telling the story behind major product announcements — including co-presenting with Anthropic at GitHub Universe 2024 for the world’s first hands-on look at Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the first Anthropic model in GitHub Copilot. At that same event, he gave a deep-dive on Copilot Workspace and supported the Day 2 keynote, Building 1 Billion Developers. He took the stage at Microsoft Build for the first in-person VS Code, Live! in 2025, returning in 2026 for Multi-agent patterns in VS Code you won’t learn from docs, and presented at GitHub Galaxy across five European cities in 2024 — Berlin, London, Stockholm, Paris and Amsterdam. He also drove the showfloor demo experience across multiple years of GitHub Universe and Microsoft Build 2025–2026, and established Rubber Duck Thursdays — a livestream he grew from a solo show into a multi-timezone live-coding series run by a team at GitHub, telling the story of Copilot’s newest capabilities direct to the community.

Chris smiling in his graduation cap and gown at Warwick Business School — MBA graduation, 2025

In addition to his Developer Relations experience, Chris completed an MBA at Warwick Business School in 2025, with coursework spanning Strategic Advantage, Marketing, Strategic Marketing, Organisational Behaviour, and Managing Organisational Performance — Marketing and Strategy in particular are areas he cares deeply about. His dissertation, Value Creation in Developer Relations, tackled a gap in the field after a search through academic literature turned up just six results. To fill it, he conducted 13 interviews with DevRel leaders — from VPs and Directors to Senior Managers — spanning startups to large enterprises.

He’s since turned those findings into a blog series, The Strategic Case for Developer Relations — covering ideas like why DevRel is better understood as value co-creation than marketing, and a measurement gap where only 2 of the 13 leaders he interviewed could clearly connect their team’s day-to-day work to strategic outcomes.

Chris presenting at Microsoft Ignite Tour in Amsterdam, with the audience raising their hands in response to a question — Presenting at Microsoft Ignite Tour, Amsterdam

At Microsoft, Chris served as DevOps Practice Lead and Cloud Architecture Practice Lead within FastTrack for Azure, part of Azure Engineering’s Customer Experience organisation. He established the “Azure Architecture Bar” experience at events like Microsoft Ignite and Build, and led a global team that owned relationships with more than 10 Azure DevOps and GitHub product groups — turning patterns and feedback from FastTrack’s global customer base into tangible product improvements. Chris also presented at several events including Microsoft Tech Ready, Microsoft Ignite and several Microsoft Tech Summit events, presented at several user groups and many DevOps-focused industry conferences, and keynoted a number of customer-internal events.

Chris on the Azure Mythbusters studio set, with the full camera and lighting crew in shot — Filming Azure Mythbusters

Chris is no stranger to podcasts or videos, and created Cloud with Chris, a video and podcast brand exploring cloud concepts, architecture, and the developer experience. Under that banner, he co-hosted ToolUp Tuesday with Matt, a live-coding series building an application from scratch while narrating every architectural decision along the way, and put together a long-running Cloud Design Patterns series walking through individual cloud architecture patterns one episode at a time. He also collaborated on the YouTube series Azure Mythbusters, a short series for busting common cloud myths. The full back-catalogue of vlogs, deep-dives, and articles lives on in the video and blog archives on this site.

Outside of work, Chris is a Musical Theatre Enthusiast. He was on Reading Operatic Society’s Committee and performed in a number of productions, including;

Judas in Godspell at The Kenton Theatre with Reading Operatic Society
The Bartender (himself) in Closing Time at The Oakwood Centre with Reading Operatic Society
Stevens in Dogfight at The Oakwood Centre with The Hear My Voice Project
Bert Healy in Annie at The Kenton Theatre with Reading Operatic Society
Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar at Progress Theatre with Progress Theatre
Jamie in My Fair Lady at The Hexagon with Reading Operatic Society

The cast of Godspell at The Kenton Theatre — Godspell — full company

Chris performing as Judas in Godspell, All for the Best — Godspell — Judas, “All for the Best”

Chris performing as Bert Healy in Annie — Annie — Bert Healy

Chris performing as Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar — Jesus Christ Superstar — Annas (left)

Photo credit: Godspell and Annie photos by Mike Gribble. Jesus Christ Superstar photo by Richard Brown.

In 2020, Chris attended an intensive workshop with The Showstoppers, focused on improvised Musical Theatre. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris hasn’t returned to the stage, but hopes to in the future.

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