Jimmy Thompson
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Thompson is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering leader based in London with 13 years of experience building products from scratch and scaling teams and systems for high-growth companies. He has led engineering functions and shipping critical infrastructure at companies like Freetrade, Kroo and most recently Apple, driving projects from in-house billing systems handling hundreds of thousands of subscribers to multi-region container platforms. Equally comfortable hands-on and strategic, he has a track record of growing engineering teams, refining hiring and promotion processes, and coaching managers into strong technical leaders. His background at ThoughtWorks and work on platforms for Elsevier and government services show deep experience in large-scale data, microservices and secure production deployments. Outside of product roles he contributes backend fixes and UX improvements to open-source projects such as a minimalist Markdown blogging platform, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Stackoverflow
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28answers
2questions
Github Skills (19)
markdown10
configuration-management10
blog-engine10
php10
markdown-it10
dashboard9
mysql-db8
mysql8
css7
xhtml7
html7
vector6
generics6
iterator6
namespaces6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
johnroper100/dropplets
Apr 2013 - May 2013
Welcome to an easier way to blog - A minimalist markdown blogging platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 20 days
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily worked on the back-end functionality of the blog platform. They modified the configuration settings, including password reset capabilities. The user made improvements to the RSS feed generation, fixing issues related to the title and date display in the feed. Additionally, the user appears to have addressed several bugs, particularly those affecting the dashboard interface and user experience.
markdownphpblog-engine
jimmythompson/ent
May 2015 - Oct 2015
An attack tree generator built on electron
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 5 months
electron
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