Summary
Thomas Bigger is a senior software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack and backend systems across finance, monitoring, and insurance domains. He has modernised critical services—upgrading Java 11 to 17, designing performance test pipelines that simulate production trade flows, and migrating workloads to cloud-native Kubernetes and GCP/Azure environments. Equally comfortable in JVM and polyglot stacks, his toolkit includes Java, Kotlin, Spring, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL, and container orchestration, plus practical DevOps expertise in CI/CD and observability. He’s contributed to open-source monitoring work and mentored students and interns, bringing a pragmatic TDD/BDD approach to delivering reliable microservices. Based in Crumlin, Northern Ireland, Thomas combines enterprise-scale experience at organisations like CME Group and Microsoft with a knack for turning complex integration challenges into testable, production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC Extended Diploma, IT (Software Development), BTEC Extended Diploma, IT (Software Development) at Belfast Metropolitan College, Titanic Quarter
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Information Systems at University of Liverpool
English