Roo Thorp
Software Engineer at MongoDB
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRoo Thorp is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend and distributed systems, currently working at MongoDB after roles at Pulumi and Couchbase. He is fluent in Go and TypeScript and also maintains strong practical knowledge of C, Python, Java, Bash and web fundamentals, routinely applying containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes. Based in Manchester and grounded by a First in Computer Science from Lancaster University, Roo combines systems-level networking insight with hands-on development across SQL and NoSQL datastores. He’s especially interested in networking and distributed computing, bringing that perspective to performance-minded backend engineering. A background that spans startups and platform companies gives him a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable, scalable software.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
IT (Networking and Systems Support), Distinction*, IT (Networking and Systems Support), Distinction* at York College, York UKBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First at Lancaster University
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Github Skills (90)
aws-services10
scheduling10
infrastructure10
pulumi-azure10
operator10
mesos10
atlas10
kubernetes-operator10
pulumi10
golang10
lambda10
kubernetes10
go10
nodejs10
csharp10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
roothorp/roothorp
Jul 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
roothorp/dotfiles
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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