Chris Priest has been working in & around .NET for the last 15 years in a career that has spanned financial institutions, small startups, and worldwide e-commerce platforms. On a day-to-day basis, he is a hands-on Technical Lead / Architect at cloud consultancy Amido.
Outside of work (and in no particular order of importance), helping to raise three children under five, making a victorian-era house 'smart', occasionally riding a bike and teaching skiing take up most of his spare time.
Talks I've Given
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How I Turned My Gas Meter Smart Using My Own Software, A Raspberry Pi & Some Other Bits
Featuring Chris Priest
The energy industry is pushing smart meters as the solution to a myriad of problems. They seem like a great idea - real-time understanding of your energy usage, no more intrusive visits to your front door from the meter reader, better management of energy across the country - but the bigger...
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Lightning Talk: If I Had A Time Machine: Three Things I Wish I’d Known Before My First Cloud Project
Featuring Chris Priest
Cloud projects can require a different approach to conventional on-prem projects. These differences are often subtle and do not become apparent until it is too difficult or too expensive to change course. These differences can vary from architectural design, decisions around the services you use,...
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Serverless MapReduce with .NET
Featuring Chris Priest
"Big data" and MapReduce can often appear to be scary models that only those with Linux & Java skills, and a large budget for a server cluster, can fully understand, let alone leverage. This needn't be the case!
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Successful Collaboration and MOFF - Applied
Featuring Chris Priest, Jenny Martin and Pete Buckney
In this talk Jenny Martin, Chris Priest and Pete Buckney (The Sparkle Team) share their experience on a government-funded R&D retail project with Sparkle CS and their application of BDD and agile testing techniques.
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My Work
Senior Consultant at Amido
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