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Founder, Engineer, Architect

Christopher Grant

Strategic Technical Executive & Architect: Bridging the gap between High-Scale Engineering, Global Security, and Operational Intelligence.

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Background

About Me

Technical Executive & Multi-Disciplinary Systems Architect with 12 years of experience leading a global enterprise SaaS platform (Rosterfy) from inception. A full-spectrum engineer with a proven track record of scaling high-availability, cloud-agnostic architectures for hundreds of global clients, including FIFA, Super Bowl, and SXSW.

Expert in leveraging AI as a strategic force multiplier across Engineering, Compliance, and Operations to drive speed-to-market and institutional reliability. A leader who bridges the gap between deep-stack engineering (PHP, Node, Python, SQL/NoSQL) and executive-level governance (ISO 27001/SOC 2). I specialize in navigating the transition from manual engineering to AI-augmented architectural leadership, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant growth in complex global jurisdictions.

Career

Experience

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) & Head of Operations

Security, CISO, Compliance, Governance

Present Jan 2019 – Present

Established the company’s first comprehensive Information Security Management System (ISMS).


Principal Solution Architect

IaC, Kubernetes, SaaS, Integrations

Jan 2017 – Dec 2024
  • Designed multi-tenant, cloud-agnostic infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Integrated 60+ global systems including payment gateways, background checks, and IDP solutions.
  • Optimized platform performance to 99.99% SLA through advanced observability (OpenTelemetry) and automated load testing.

Customer Service Engineer

Support, Customer Support

Jan 2015 – Jul 2025

Operated in a support role for new and existing customers. Working within an SLA I helped design and implement, I have worked with many customers across governments, non-profits, sporting federations, event management companies and city departments.


Full Stack Engineer

PHP, Laravel, Vue, React, AWS, CLI

Mar 2014 – Dec 2024
  • Design and deliver platform architecture, infrastructure, API, and platform functionality.
  • Implement and follow best practices including secure coding procedure and OWASP recommendations to produce clean and well-documented secure code
  • Troubleshoot, debug and optimize system for performance and availability
  • Work as a member of a development team working to a development standard
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members in product, engineering and customer facing roles to deliver best possible product
  • 10+ years experience with
    • PHP, Laravel, Symfony
    • Nginx
    • Vue and React.js
    • MySQL, NoSQL, SQLite
    • AWS - Cloudformation, SNS, Lambda, CLI,
    • HTML, CSS, Javascript
    • PHPStorm
  • 5+ years experience with
    • Docker
    • EKS / Kubernetes
    • CI/CD with Buildkite
    • XCode
  • Designed and built integrations with many suppliers and partners utilising different integration designs and topologies including OAuth, JSON, XML, message bus services, data streams, data warehouses, REST API

Founder & Principal Architect

Founder, CTO, Architecture, GlobalScale

Present Jan 2014 – Present

Co-founded Rosterfy. Orchestrated the technical evolution from a local startup to a global enterprise solution supporting millions of users.

  • Architected high-availability systems for the world’s largest events (FIFA, Super Bowl).
  • Led the transition from monolithic architecture to a global GitOps-driven microservices environment.
  • Acted as a technical advisor for global NGO clients, designing bespoke solutions for complex organizational structures.

Expertise

Skills

Leadership

Executive Leadership & Strategic Direction

6
Organizational Scaling & Governance Strategic AI Stewardship High-Stakes Stakeholder Relations Mission-Critical Problem Solving Innovation & Product Leadership Strategic AI Integration

Engineering

Enterprise Architecture & Polyglot Engineering

6
Cloud-Agnostic Infrastructure Distributed Systems & Observability Full-Spectrum Polyglot Development Secure engineering design Integration patterns Enterprise Observability

Project management

Project leadership managing milestones, budget, timelines and stakeholders

2
Customer project management Engineering project management

Compliance and Security

Global Security, Compliance & AI Governance

8
Design information security management system Zero-Trust Security Architecture Global Regulatory Engineering Access control and HR Secure SDLC & DevSecOps Technical and operational controls Vendor and risk management Regulatory Engineering

Academic

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Bachelor of Computer Science

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Bachelor of Computer Science - Focused on Systems and Security. (PGP Verified Identity)

2006 – 2008

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Completed

2009 – 2014

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS

Validation Number: QMMJCNMJP2FE1N58

2021 – 2021

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS

Validation Number P3FNP1HBBJEQQ4CX

2021 – 2021

GPG Verified Principal

Digital Identity Verification

Global OpenPGP Network

PGP Fingerprint: 9D90 3471 F8DD A85D 1055 10BA E079 7C39 B4CA 980E

2026 – 2026

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