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Chris Southam

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Head of Engineering at Signable
📍 Chippenham, England, United Kingdom

Chris is the Head of Engineering at Signable, bringing nearly 30 years of experience in leading software projects and driving technical excellence. He specializes in scalable system design, cloud transformation, and organizational leadership, with a focus on aligning technology with business strategy to achieve measurable outcomes.

He is passionate about mentoring developers and helping them grow into product-focused engineers. He authors a weekly newsletter, "Developer to Engineer, " to share insights on quality, delivery discipline, and the mindset shift from shipping features to shipping outcomes reliably.

Unique fact: Chris publishes his "Developer to Engineer" newsletter for aspiring developers every Monday morning.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Head of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Chippenham, England, United Kingdom
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Developer Mentorship
Writes the "Developer to Engineer" newsletter to help developers level up into product-focused engineering roles, emphasizing quality, discipline, and ownership.
Product-Focused Engineering
Advocates for a mindset shift from simply "shipping features" to "shipping outcomes reliably, " a core theme in his professional posts and newsletter.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Head of Engineering
Signable
4-2024 - 2-2025
Engineering Team Manager
Signable
7-2023 - 3-2024
Freelance Software Engineer
Freelance
4-2020 - 6-2023
Technical Director
Digitonas
8-2015 - 4-2020
Senior Developer
Rally - Challenge More
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Education
1988 - 1997
GCSEs and A-Levels
King Edward's School
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