Thom Leggett
Vice President Of Engineering at Book Creator from Kami
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThom Leggett is a seasoned engineering leader with over 18 years in commercial software development, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Kami where he leads the Book Creator engineering team. He combines hands-on architecture and cloud expertise (TypeScript / Google Cloud) with a strong track record in delivering SaaS at scale—driving uptime from ~90% to 99.999% while keeping operational costs linear through 10x user growth. Thom has deep experience in security and compliance, having led technical implementations and third-party audits for SOC 2, GDPR, and COPPA to protect tens of millions of users. His background includes founding Oracle’s serverless offering and shaping core distributed systems and security design, demonstrating both product vision and deep technical ownership. A pragmatic coach who integrates AI-assisted development to boost velocity, he also has roots in startups and product management that give him a keen sense for commercial engineering outcomes. Based in Bristol, UK, he blends enterprise-scale discipline with startup agility to deliver reliable, secure, and educator-focused SaaS products.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Imperial College LondonA-Level: Mathematics (A), Further Mathematics (A), Physics (A), Geography(A)., A-Level: Mathematics (A), Further Mathematics (A), Physics (A), Geography(A). at Wellington School, Somerset
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Github Skills (86)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tteggel/tteggel.github.io
Feb 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:21 pushes in 9 years 11 months
tteggel/dot-files
Jun 2012 - Mar 2022
Contributions:181 commits, 153 pushes in 9 years 10 months
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