Chris Seaton

I'm a Researcher (Senior Staff Engineer) at Shopify , where I work on the Ruby programming Language, and a Visitor at the University of Manchester .

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Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech

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Outside my day job doing compiler research at Shopify, I lead the Cheshire Yeomanry , a squadron of British Army Reserve light cavalry . I spend about a hundred days a year of my spare-time in evenings, weekends, and holidays, training my Squadron.