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Chris Grice

Chris Grice

Head of Engineering, software engineer and technical leader

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Manchester, UK
Joined December 2025
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Summary

Engineering leader who scales teams and products: Chris has led Street's engineering organisation through rapid growthā€”helping the company move from a small engineering group into multiple product teams and a much larger departmentā€”while delivering major product areas and onboarding tooling. medium+1
Hands-on systems and reliability focus: he remains operationally engagedā€”diving into traces, load graphs and performance tuningā€”and has driven work to embed security and improve detection and remediation workflows as part of maintaining release velocity and reliability at scale. medium+1
Practical product- and data-focused engineering: across roles he has shipped pragmatic solutions (for example improving geolocation accuracy for delivery drivers at Sainsbury's) by piloting changes, gathering operational feedback, and rolling improvements into production quickly. medium
Community-facing engineer and communicator: Chris writes about engineering topics, presents and participates in podcasts and events, and shares learnings publiclyā€”indicating a pattern of knowledge-sharing, mentoring and representing engineering teams externally. medium+3

Work

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Writing

Looking Back: Four Years with Street Engineering

March 1, 2025

Reflection on joining Street in March 2021, the engineering department's growth, challenges of scaling teams and systems, and highlights of products and tooling delivered over four years.

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Street go to Laravel Live

June 1, 2023

Write-up about Street engineering team's attendance at Laravel Live, lessons and takeaways about APIs, tooling, and community learnings relevant to Street's engineering practices.

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Street Group goes to Laracon

April 1, 2021

Summary of the Laracon conference highlights and how learnings (Octane, Livewire, routing, API design) informed Street's engineering decisions.

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Enhancing our location data for delivery drivers

June 1, 2020

Description of work on Sainsbury's Customer Geolocation Service, switching to higher-accuracy address geodata, pilot rollouts, lessons learned from driver feedback, and the impact on delivery operations.

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Hobbies

Music enthusiast who curates Radio 6 playlists and builds small web tinkers. nitter+1