Giles Thompson
Software Consultant at Giles Thompson
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolGiles Thompson is a self-employed software consultant and hands-on engineering leader with 13 years’ experience building and guiding web products across startups and high-traffic SaaS. He combines advisory, architecture design, project management and automated testing with day-to-day development, code reviews and mentoring, most recently leading engineering at realestate.co.nz. Comfortable across the full stack, Giles has co-founded and served as CTO of a fast-growing startup, run Agile teams, and maintained long-term client relationships while paying down tech debt. An active open-source maintainer and perpetual learner, he’s currently exploring Elixir/Phoenix, NixOS and Godot, bringing a mix of pragmatic delivery and curiosity-driven experimentation to every engagement.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA (incomplete), Economics, Computer Science, Comparative Politics, English Literature, Religious Studies, Philosophy, BA (incomplete), Economics, Computer Science, Comparative Politics, English Literature, Religious Studies, Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (200)
uploads10
playback10
reactive-programming10
ember-data10
fetch10
emberjs10
declarative10
flash-messages10
lint10
command-line-utility10
composable10
hbs10
data-loading10
ember10
dialogs10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
adopted-ember-addons/ember-file-upload
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
File uploads for Ember apps
Contributions:43 releases, 115 reviews, 193 commits in 3 years 4 months
file-uploadember-addonemberjsaddonember
gilest/db2fog
Aug 2015 - Jan 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 7 months
railsrubydatabasebackupsdatabase-backups
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