I’m Chris Shepherd. I live in London, where I'm helping to build a better Internet.

I'm a Senior Systems Engineer building large scale distributed systems. I have worked within software engineering for more than eight years, having successfully shipped a number of big projects. Working for both big-name companies, and fast paced, hyper-growth startups, spanning across many different industries, including finance, cybersecurity, and the public sector.

I try to be actively engaged in the tech community, speaking at numerous technical conferences, such as Kafka Summit and Gophercon, where I have sharing insights on building distributed systems and advanced concurrency techniques in Go. I have also been a guest on multiple podcasts, discussing topics like gRPC and migrating from PHP to Go. I also served as a technical reviewer for the book “Domain-Driven Design with Golang,” ensuring the accuracy and clarity of its content.

Outside of software engineering, I am an avid runner, having run multiple marathons. When I'm not pounding the pavement, I'm usually either hacking on side projects, struggling in the gym, or slicing a shot on the golf course.