Christopher Little-Savage

Christopher Little-Savage has extensive work experience in various roles and industries.

Starting from 2013, they worked as a Researcher at Transversal, followed by a role as a Kentico Developer at Pull Digital Ltd in 2014. In 2015, they worked as an Undergraduate Researcher at the University of Kent.

In 2016, Christopher founded Manner, an AI-driven platform for optimizing chatbot dialogue repertoires as part of Entrepreneur First's EF7 cohort. Christopher grew the company from scratch.

In 2017, they co-founded Lendr, and also worked as a MVP Consultant, producing proofs of concepts and minimum viable products for startups in London. Christopher developed and deployed scalable serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Cloudfront, and React/GraphQL clients.

In 2018, Christopher became the Founder and Technical Director of Tyro Uganda, where they pioneered a coding apprenticeship program for developers in Kampala with no prior technical exposure. Christopher integrated a modern development curriculum into an Agile workflow and led the delivery of cross-platform apps for commercial clients.

In 2019, they worked as a Front-end Lead at Lendingblock, where they initially started as an external consultant. Christopher later led a remote team in completing the creation of a cryptocurrency trading platform.

From 2020 to 2021, Christopher was a Software Innovation Engineer at GSMA, managing a mixed team of external and internal developers. Christopher was responsible for delivering technical solutions to increase financial and digital inclusion for the world's poorest people. Christopher worked on various areas such as payment system interoperability, service accessibility for vulnerable groups, and digital identities for unregistered individuals.

Currently, Christopher is serving as the Head of Engineering at PowerX Technology, a role they took on in 2022. Additionally, they previously worked as the Lead Software Engineer at the same company from 2021 to 2022.

Throughout their career, Christopher has demonstrated expertise in engineering, software development, project management, and team leadership.

Christopher Little-Savage has a strong education background in computer science and advanced computer science. Christopher began their education at Churcher's College in Petersfield, where they focused on further maths, physics, Latin, and Spanish from 2003 to 2011. Later, they attended the University of Cambridge from 2012 to 2016, earning a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Computer Science. Christopher continued their studies at the same institution and obtained a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Advanced Computer Science in 2016. Additionally, Christopher holds a certification as an Amazon Web Services Developer - Associate, which they obtained from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in November 2020.