ThomasĀ Aitken
Senior Software Engineer at Schneider Electric
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolThomas Aitken is a senior software engineer based in Sydney with 7+ years of full-stack experience across web and mobile platforms. He has progressed from early-stage startup engineer to senior roles at Instawork, Clipsal Cortex, and Schneider Electric, shipping systems using Django, React/TypeScript, React Native, and AWS. At ShopGrok he helped build data-engineering tooling, CI/CD and scraping infrastructure from the ground up, and later led small teams to scale those systems. His technical curiosity spans ML, cyber-security, and cryptography, and he is the creator of DirectDemocracyForum.com, reflecting an interest in civic tech and open discussion. Comfortable bridging product and infrastructure, he combines pragmatic engineering with a background in mathematics and philosophy to tackle ambiguous problems and deliver maintainable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (68)
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scraper10
python9
scrapy9
crawling9
swift8
cpp8
lua8
bash8
vim-plugin8
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php8
java8
golang7
ruby7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ThomasAitken/scrapy-sessions
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
A session-management extension for Scrapy.
Contributions:13 releases, 1 review, 19 commits in 2 months
scraperpythonscrapysession-management
ThomasAitken/Scrapy-Testmaster
May 2020 - Jun 2021
The most advanced debugging and testing tool for Scrapy
Contributions:12 releases, 42 commits, 36 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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