Thom Lawrence
Senior Engineering Manager at Hudl
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThom Lawrence is a senior engineering manager and veteran founder with over two decades touching product, ML, platforms and web engineering. He led StatsBomb from founding CTO through acquisition by Hudl, building core analytics, data APIs and machine learning pipelines while hiring and managing cross-disciplinary teams. Now at Hudl he’s integrating engineering platforms and people post-acquisition, blending startup agility with scaled-organisation delivery. His career spans hands-on systems work from C# and Java to modern data and computer vision stacks, and includes a prior startup that produced a fast fuzzy natural-language query parser. Notably, his data-driven consultancy helped SK Slavia Praha secure a domestic title and millions in transfer profit—evidence of applied analytics driving real-world outcomes. Based in Sheffield, he pairs product intuition with engineering rigor and a knack for turning research into production.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Kent
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Github Skills (47)
twitter9
authentication9
oauth9
partial7
macos6
flash6
wordnet6
exists6
thin6
jce6
facebook6
java6
javascript6
jquery-plugin4
restful4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hotwoofy/clj-wordnet
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 months
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rm-hull/clj-wordnet
Feb 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
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