Chris Arderne

Software at Trigger.dev. Durable agents at scale.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

About

Experienced software and data person, with deep and broad experience building apps and services, data systems and models. I especially love all things geospatial, and working in the finance, climate and energy sectors. I've been productive from solo dev and first engineer through to highly structured multinationals. Happy at the coalface of infrastructure and devops, data modelling, greenfield prototypes, full-stack product engineering. I write Python and Typescript all day. Go when possible, and Rust for fun (so far). Java and C once upon a time. In the UK on a Global Talent visa since 2020.

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer at Trigger.dev
    Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Fractional Product Engineering at Various Startups
    May 2025 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Rapid product development with a few clients. Launching new apps and products in weeks. Startups and bigger clients looking for quality and speed.

  • Advisor at Sea.dev
    May 2025 - Jan 2026 · 9 mos

    Built the product from the ground up. TanStack Start, Drizzle, Better-Auth, AI SDK, Polar.sh: all the latest goodies. Form creation UI, embeddable React widget, an agent that can interact with anything in the app.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Sylvera
    Nov 2024 - May 2025 · 7 mos

  • Senior Software Engineer at Translucent
    Nov 2022 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Built many of the company's new apps and prototypes (Next.js, tRPC). Built our data integration pipelines (Python, Prefect, Kubernetes). Built a Google Sheets app?? Set up our declarative authz system (Cerbos). Fought with Auth0. Built some document search indexes. Lots of fun besides.