Thomas Loudon
Technical Lead - Global Metals Technology at StoneX Group Inc.
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Loudon is a Technical Lead with 13 years’ experience building full-stack, event-driven microservice platforms for financial services, currently leading Global Metals Technology at StoneX. He combines hands-on development with agile team leadership and a background in mechatronics engineering, enabling a pragmatic approach to complex systems and low-latency trading workflows. His contributions to popular open-source projects like Chart.js show a knack for thoughtful front-end enhancements—improving hover styling and cross-chart helper consistency—that complement his backend architecture work. Based in England, he is adept at translating domain-specific trading requirements into robust, auditable software and often bridges the gap between front-office needs and scalable platform design.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechatronics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechatronics at University of CanterburySaint Kentigern College
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Github Skills (16)
html10
graph10
javascript10
front-end-development10
graphing10
canvas10
charts10
css6
ios6
sliders6
firefox6
cakephp6
jquery6
iphone6
deferred-loading6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chartjs/Chart.js
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's contributions focused on enhancing the Chart.js library's functionality related to hover effects and styling. They added support for using CanvasPattern objects for hover effects, allowing for more flexible visual customizations. The user refactored the helper function names to be more generic and updated multiple chart types to leverage the new helper function, improving the library's overall consistency. Furthermore, the user addressed a linting issue by adding a global flag to ensure proper code checks.
javascriptcharthtml5canvasgraph
ashiguruma/patternomaly
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
Easily generate patterns for use in data graphics
Contributions:13 releases, 89 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 5 months
graphic
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