Thomas Brand
Software Engineer at Ignition Works
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Brand is a seasoned software engineer with 25 years’ experience specializing in Ruby and agile/XP practices, currently building reliable systems at Ignition Works. He brings deep domain expertise in equity fund management — from trade capture and settlement to compliance and integrations with custodians, fund accountants and market services like Bloomberg. A pragmatic test-focused developer, he contributes to the Cucumber project (improving its Ruby test infrastructure and RSpec migration) and champions executable specification tools such as RSpec and Cucumber. He has led teams delivering fund management platforms and continues to favour a small, high-leverage toolset (Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Capistrano) to speed safe delivery. Active in the London Software Craftsmanship Community, he organizes events from code retreats to roundtables, and off-hours he channels precision and risk management into yacht racing as a Yachtmaster.
25 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at University of SouthamptonSt. Dunstan's College
Github Skills (5)
cucumber10
rspec10
junit10
test-automation10
ruby10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Sep 2013 - Jun 2014
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure and quality assurance of the Cucumber-Ruby project. Their commits focused on fixing issues related to the JUnit formatter, ensuring correct output for example tables within the testing framework. They made improvements to the report adapter, which suggests work related to the generation and formatting of test reports. Furthermore, the user updated the RSpec suite to use RSpec 3 and modified the codebase to align with it.
cucumberrubyamazingpolyglot-releasetidelift
tom025/vimfiles-1
Mar 2015 - Jan 2019
The Vim Configuration. Uses NeoBundle to manage plugins.
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
vimvim-configuration
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