Billie Thompson
Lead Consulting Engineer at Armakuni
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBillie Thompson is a Lead Consulting Engineer based in Berlin with 16 years’ experience helping product teams deliver better software through modern agile and cloud-native practices. They combine hands-on development across PHP, Java and Node.js with leadership in TDD/BDD, microservices and CI/CD to improve code quality and team throughput. Billie has a track record of transforming teams and architectures at organisations from government (Home Office) to media and retail, and running their own training and bespoke development company. They’re comfortable operating across webops, search and data pipelines (Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ) and have repeatedly built scalable deployments on AWS and automation with Jenkins, Puppet and Capistrano. Known for coaching teams into sustainable delivery, Billie also brings a pragmatic focus on observability and request tracing that keeps systems maintainable in production.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Wales, AberystwythQueen Elizabeth Sixth Form
English, German
Github Skills (200)
behat10
linter10
gitconfig10
k8s10
cucumber10
commit-message10
symfony10
throwaway10
googleapis10
jira10
php10
command-line10
windows10
terraform10
ruby10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
PurpleBooth/fix-compaudit
Apr 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:116 releases, 277 PRs, 317 pushes in 6 years 3 months
UKHomeOffice/docker-nodejs
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
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