Geoff Thorpe
Configuration Manager
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeoff Thorpe is a seasoned Configuration Manager with over 30 years in IT and more than a decade focused on configuration and delivery excellence at organisations like the Financial Times and Betfair. He combines deep technical roots in COBOL and C/C++ with hands-on experience designing CMDBs, migrating bespoke solutions into ServiceNow, and automating environment provisioning to tighten audit controls and speed releases. Geoff has a strong track record improving performance testing and operational readiness, turning project-based testers into cross-divisional performance consultants and creating dashboards recognised as key audit controls. Known for mentoring infrastructure teams, he translates operational pain points into repeatable processes that reduce cost and risk. As owner of Application Knowledge Limited, he blends consultancy thinking with practical tool implementation, often delivering measurable efficiency gains such as tenfold build-time improvements for e‑Banking. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic quality assurance and a talent for making complex configuration landscapes auditable and manageable.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (123)
validation9
api9
neo4j9
schema9
aws-sts9
graph9
django8
database8
splunk8
sql8
rest8
hapi8
cypher8
javascript8
lambda8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Financial-Times/contact-organiser
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:69 PRs, 228 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 1 month
contacts
Financial-Times/serverless-plugin-about
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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