David Thompson
Engineering Manager at Lottie
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Thompson is an engineering manager and full-stack developer with 10 years’ experience building web and native applications across startups and scale-ups in London. He leads teams and ships production systems using JavaScript/Node, React/React Native, Python, Go, Rust and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP), pairing hands-on coding with squad-level hiring, mentoring and architecture. His background includes moving legacy front-ends to React, creating microservice architectures, and embedding CI/CD and Kubernetes-driven delivery pipelines. Known for pragmatic technical leadership, he has repeatedly combined product-facing work with devops responsibilities to speed delivery and reliability. Outside engineering he’s a musician and avid vim user who brings the same craftsmanship to smart-home projects and plant care as he does to production systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The Latymer School, EdmontonBachelor’s Degree Music, Bachelor’s Degree Music at Canterbury Christ Church UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Science & Information Technology, Master’s Degree Computer Science & Information Technology at Birkbeck, University of London
Github Skills (58)
api-client10
testing10
websocket10
react-component10
api10
rest10
rest-api10
api-testing10
insomnia9
api-rest9
package9
http9
vue9
dates9
nodejs9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ysdexlic/joseph-ford-thompson
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:35 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
ysdexlic/ysdexlic.github.io
Aug 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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