CHRIS FAULKNER
Adelaide, South Australia

Complex problems
untangled
I jump in
where others won't.

I'm Chris Faulkner — 14+ years of getting it done, efficiently and effectively. At Punt Club I led the platform back to market after some time offline. I'm happiest diving straight into the problems others tiptoe around, then explaining them to anyone — technical or not — in plain English. You'll never catch me calling it synergy.

14+ years shipping production software
800,000+ users on platforms I built
45% off the AWS bill, a recurring saving
Watercolor portrait of Chris Faulkner
2025 —

Punt Club — back to market

CTO / Senior Engineer

The platform had been offline for some time after losing its core wagering partner. I fast-tracked a replacement wagering API into the Symfony codebase, returned the product to market, and tuned it to sustain thousands of transactions a day — all whilst cutting AWS spend by 45% along the way by removing inefficiencies and unused services.

Symfony · Node.js · React · AWS
2013 – 23

SA Health — LMS at scale

Lead Full Stack Developer

Architected and ran customised LMS instances for the Women's & Children's Hospital and beyond — payments, LTI, reporting, and MySQL tuned for 800,000+ users. Supported all of it, L1 through L3, for a decade.

PHP · CodeIgniter · Vue.js · MySQL
2023 – 25

HutSix — CRM & mobile

Senior Software Engineer

Custom CRM systems on AngularJS and Symfony. Moved deployments to Docker with automated CI/CD, managed AWS with Terraform, and co-built a React Native app.

AngularJS · Symfony · Terraform · React Native
2025 —CTO / Senior Software Engineer, Punt Club
2023 – 25Senior Software Engineer, HutSix
2013 – 23Junior → Lead Full Stack Developer, SA Health
2009 – 13Bachelor of Computing (Multimedia), University of South Australia
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate '23 · Cert IV Project Management '22
Let's talk.