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Christopher Thorne

Co-Founder & CTO @ BabelBond | AWS Certified Solutions Architect | Ex-Head of Tech @ Reckon Digital

Location:London, England, United Kingdom (London, United Kingdom)
Timezone:Europe/London
Experience:10 Years
Direct Rate
$50–$110/ hour (USD)
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About & Engineering Approach

Certified AWS Solutions Architect and CTO with 10+ years of hands-on experience designing cloud backends and microservices platforms. As Head of Technology at Reckon Digital, responsible for designing and deploying production systems on AWS for the UN (World Food Programme) and international enterprises (Baker Hughes). Specializes in serverless and containerized services on AWS (Lambda, ECS, CDK, CloudFormation), highly reliable relational databases (RDS Aurora), and data security.

Core Technologies & Competencies

Primary Specializations

AWS
PostgreSQL

All Technologies & Tools

AWS
Lambda
Rds
Postgresql Aurora
Cloud Development Kit
S3
Api Gateway
Cloudfront
Iam
Aws Cloudformation
Python
PostgreSQL
Schema Design
Optimization Transactions
Query Tuning
Indexing
Cpython
Aurora
Ecs
Cdk
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Redis
Rabbitmq
Caching And Message Queues
Cicd
Git
Linux
Tdd
Django
Fastapi
TypeScript
Cicd Pipelines
System Security
Monitoring

Commercial Experience

Fractional CTO @ ClosedPeriod (Part-time)

2026-02-01 — Present

Fintech services and accounting architecture.

Co-Founder & CTO @ BabelBond

2024-04-01 — Present

Architecture and secure AWS cloud environment for fintech and legal-tech systems.

Co-Founder & CTO @ BabelBond (Full-time)

2024-04-01 — Present

Leading development of a language-solutions platform for finance and legal sectors; designing secure PostgreSQL databases.

Selected Portfolio & Deliverables

FintechFintech

BabelBond Secure Docs

Secure fintech document-exchange platform with end-to-end encryption, serving 40,000 users and passing an annual SOC 2 audit.

aws-lambda
api-gateway
rds-aurora
s3
cdk
SaaSLegal Tech

BabelBond Case Portal

Portal for law firms with case and contract management, reducing document preparation time by 45%.

aws-ecs
python
django
postgresql
cloudfront
EnterpriseNonprofit

WFP Aid Distribution Backend

Backend for the World Food Programme's aid distribution system, processing over 1M transactions per month across 15 countries.

aws-lambda
ecs
rds-postgresql
sqs
cloudformation
Enterprise SaaSFinance

BabelBond language ledger

Secure PostgreSQL translation store holds 1.2M documents; partitioning and index tuning cut search from 900 to 120 ms.

postgresql
python
fastapi
aws-rds
terraform
Data PlatformNonprofit

Reckon aid tracker

Humanitarian aid tracking system for a UN programme processes 300K transactions per month; Aurora replication delivered 99.95% availability.

postgresql
django
redis
aws-aurora
docker
Fintech SaaSFinance

ClosedPeriod accounting core

Accounting core with 45 PostgreSQL tables reconciles 80K entries per day; RabbitMQ and Celery queues removed peak delays up to 2 seconds.

postgresql
python
rabbitmq
redis
kubernetes

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