Tom Anderson
Senior Backend Developer at APOD (Australian Partners of Defence)
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolTom Anderson is a Senior Backend Developer based in Adelaide with 11 years building cloud-native backend systems, currently focusing on Golang at APOD. He brings deep experience designing and operating services on GCP and Kubernetes, with strong skills in MySQL and scalable system architecture. His background spans research software development and industry consulting, combining academic rigor from a PhD in AI and Cognitive Science with practical delivery at startups and institutions. That mix enables him to translate complex research problems into maintainable production services and mentor cross-functional teams. Contact via LinkedIn or contact@tom-anderson.com for collaborations or roles involving cloud backend engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, Research Commercialisation, Graduate Certificate, Research Commercialisation at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Master's degree, Network Learning Technology, Master's degree, Network Learning Technology at National Central UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics at University of California, Los AngelesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at Flinders University
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Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
testing10
npm-package10
recaptcha10
middleware10
mobile-application10
jsonwebtoken10
zsh10
orm10
bash10
rest-api10
firebase10
spam10
editor10
google-cloud-sdk10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
twocs/australian-lexicon
Aug 2017 - Oct 2023
A pronunciation dictionary for Australian English
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 3 months
dictionarypinyinpronunciationphoneticsenglish
twocs/reactTDD
May 2020 - Jul 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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