Andy Thompson
Principal Software Engineer at Inviqa
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Thompson is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years' experience specialising in bespoke development, database design, server architecture, performance optimisation and continuous delivery. Based in the Greater Reading area, he has driven architecture and delivery improvements for financial services while shaping security and DevOps practices across Inviqa. He coaches technical leads, founded internal DevOps capabilities, and served as Information Security Officer to embed GDPR and PCI-conscious processes into delivery. Hands-on in build and release automation, his open-source contributions to chef/omnibus improved cross-platform packaging and installer reliability. Andy combines pragmatic engineering with a strong focus on operational resilience and payments systems, often spotting and eliminating subtle infrastructure bottlenecks before they reach production. He pairs deep technical craft with an aptitude for translating regulatory and business needs into secure, repeatable delivery pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (8)
packaging10
automation10
build-system10
automations10
ruby10
testing8
jquery6
angularjs6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
chef/omnibus
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Easily create full-stack installers for your project across a variety of platforms.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the build and packaging process for the project. Their commits focused on the `dmg` compressor, modifying how package names are generated and used. They simplified package paths and updated unit tests to reflect changes in the packaging behavior, demonstrating a focus on improving the build process and ensuring its correctness. These contributions involved direct code changes related to packaging, indicating an expertise in automating the building process for the project.
installersfull-stackplatformsdockervariety
inviqa/php-console-standard
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:11 releases, 44 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 4 months
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