Thom Wright
Senior Software Engineer at TrueLayer
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThom Wright is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years’ experience designing reliable, observable backend systems and guiding teams from startup scale-up to regulated payments. Currently at TrueLayer he builds risk and payments infrastructure that enables instant settlement on slow schemes, and has a track record of influencing company-wide reliability and incident practices through ADRs, talks and documentation. He specialises in distributed systems, safe concurrency, continuous delivery and observability, and enjoys making complex ideas accessible through writing, diagrams and occasional talks. At Candide he led platform work—Kubernetes microservices, tracing, alerting and zero-downtime migrations—that helped grow the engineering team from 3 to 20 and embed blameless post-mortems. He contributes pragmatic improvements to open-source projects (notably work on the IBM WebSphere Liberty buildpack) and prefers building robust Web2 systems over blockchain work. Based in Bristol with an MEng from the University of York, he combines deep technical craft with a teacher’s instinct for clear explanations.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, MEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems, First Class with Distinction (80%), Master’s Degree, MEng Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems, First Class with Distinction (80%) at University of York
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Github Skills (8)
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http10
java10
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ruby9
javascript6
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/ibm-websphere-liberty-buildpack
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Buildpack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Thom primarily focused on improving the buildpack's functionality and robustness. They added a default User-Agent header for HTTP requests within the download cache, and allowed the User-Agent to be modified via environment variables. The user also fixed RuboCop issues, enhancing code quality. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the reliability and configurability of the buildpack.
application-serverbuildpackwebsphere
ThomWright/ThomWright.github.io
Aug 2014 - Dec 2022
My personal website - http://thomwright.co.uk
Contributions:187 commits, 1 PR, 189 pushes in 8 years 5 months
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