Harry Thompson
Lead Software Engineer at Broadband Genie
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHarry Thompson is a Lead Software Engineer based in Exeter with 8+ years building full-stack SaaS and cloud platforms, now focused on driving resilient, high-scale systems and team growth. He has scaled platforms to handle 60M+ monthly requests with >99.99% uptime, modernised core services to reduce downtime, and led company-wide adoption of zero-trust security. Comfortable across Go, PHP, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS and Terraform, he blends hands-on engineering with mentoring and infrastructure leadership. An active open-source contributor, he improved the reliese/laravel model generator by hardening nullable relationships, adding tests and return type options—work that reflects attention to backward-compatible developer ergonomics. Harry’s background ranges from junior developer roles to infrastructure team lead, giving him practical empathy for engineers at every level.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels Computer Science Economics & Physics, A-Levels Computer Science Economics & Physics at Torquay Boys' Grammar School
Github Skills (9)
model-building10
php10
code-generation10
laravel10
eloquent10
modeling10
laravel-mix10
database-design9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
reliese/laravel
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Reliese Laravel Model Generator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 14 reviews, 14 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Harry focused on enhancing the `reliese/laravel` repository, a model generator for Laravel. Their contributions involved improving the code by setting nullable relationships and fixing erroneous imports. Moreover, they added tests for the nullability of relationships and connection-specific configurations, refining the application's adaptability. Finally, they introduced options to generate return type declarations for relation methods.
scaffoldphpdatabaseeloquent-modelsmysql-database
finiteinfinity/laravel
Oct 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 14 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 11 months
laravelcode-generationlaravel-components
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