Chris Tompkinson
Server Engineer at Supercell
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChris Tompkinson is a Server Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable back-end systems and DevOps platforms across gaming, television, and government sectors. He has strong hands-on expertise in AWS, container platforms (ECS/Docker), Terraform, and languages including Scala, Java, TypeScript and Ruby, delivering live ops, matchmaking, and automated testing for titles at Space Ape and Supercell. Chris has driven cloud migrations, zero-downtime deployments and CI/CD pipelines, and also contributed test automation and QA improvements to the widely used Homebrew project, improving its curl URL handling and test coverage. A first-class Computer Science and Robotics graduate, he blends production-grade engineering with a practical focus on reliability and observability, and often surfaces hidden quality issues through disciplined testing and refactoring.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The Ilfracombe AcademyComputer Science and Robotics BSc, 1st, Computer Science and Robotics BSc, 1st at University of Bedfordshire
Github Skills (7)
ruby10
homebrew10
testing10
curl9
package-manager9
package-manager-tool9
macos8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/brew
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to enhancing the testing infrastructure within the Homebrew package manager. They focused on adding new tests to cover functionality related to URL handling and curl options, specifically the use of headers in downloads. They also refactored existing tests and ensured they aligned with the code standards through rubocop, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and test coverage. These changes were integral to improving the robustness and reliability of the software.
package-managerhomebrewrubymacosbrew
ctompkinson/github-selector
Jan 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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