Chris Ashton

Chris Ashton

Certified Umbraco Developer · Greater Manchester, UK

Web developer based in Greater Manchester with a background that spans from theoretical physics to enterprise CMS development. I hold a Master's degree in Physics from the University of Leeds and have spent my career building and maintaining web applications — most notably on the .NET / Umbraco stack.

I currently work at Agidea Technology Consulting in Manchester. Before that, I've spent time across a range of projects touching on cloud infrastructure (AWS), server administration (IIS, FreeBSD), and front-end build tooling — which is why this blog tends to wander across so many topics.

Early in my career I co-authored two peer-reviewed papers on helium flow in aerogel materials. These days the closest I get to physics is trying to predict how long a deployment will take.

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Apr 2019
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Apr 2019
Umbraco — Searching and Indexing Apr 2018
Umbraco — Extending the Backoffice Feb 2018
Umbraco — MVC & Visual Studio Feb 2018
Umbraco — Application Integration Mar 2017
Umbraco Fundamentals Mar 2017
Certified Scrum Master Jun 2015
Agile Estimating and Planning Aug 2013
Umbraco Level 1 Apr 2012

Notable Repositories

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An Umbraco Belle "textbox multiple" datatype with a character limit.

JavaScript

Umbraco LinkedIn integration.

C#

Development tooling.

Health check extensions for Umbraco.

JavaScript