Thomas Boam
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Deliveroo
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Boam is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in London with 14 years of experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams across distributed systems and front-end frameworks. He combines pragmatic, test-driven development with strong people leadership, having transformed underperforming teams at Palantir and reduced operational burden across multiple products. Technically versatile, Thomas has driven performance-critical architecture changes, built automated performance testing frameworks, and contributed to widely used open-source projects like Bootstrap (including the popular twbs/bootstrap repo). At Deliveroo he continues to blend hands-on engineering with strategic delivery, focusing on stability and scalable systems. Less obvious: he has repeatedly stepped into high-pressure roles to stabilize mission-critical products and also improved team morale and processes while owning complex data migrations and platform launches.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, First Class (Honours), Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, First Class (Honours) at The University of EdinburghStrathaven Academy, Scotland
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
sass10
css-frameworks10
javascript10
bootstra10
scs10
bootstrap10
sc10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
twbs/bootstrap-sass
Sep 2011 - Jan 2015
Official Sass port of Bootstrap 2 and 3.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:198 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily worked on implementing and updating various JavaScript components within the Bootstrap framework. They added and modified JavaScript files for functionalities like tooltips, modals, alerts, and typeaheads, aligning with the framework's updates. Their contributions included integrating new features and fixing regressions in the Javascript components of the framework. These updates demonstrate a focus on maintaining and enhancing the interactive elements of the Bootstrap framework.
sassbootstrap-2gulpcssbootswatch
twbs/bootstrap
Mar 2013 - Sep 2015
The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas made several contributions related to the Bootstrap framework's codebase. These commits involved enhancements to the CSS framework, including implementing horizontal gradients and fixing issues with the output style using libsass. Additionally, the user removed less references from package files. The user also reworked conditional logic for a callout tag, along with general merges and minor documentation updates.
sassdevelopingcssjavascriptjavascript-framework
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