Thomas Chinery
Senior Technical Lead at Virgin Media O2
Woking, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Chinery is a Senior Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems and leading small engineering teams across startups and large telco environments. He blends hands-on Node.js/TypeScript development (NestJS, Angular) with Terraform, Kubernetes (Istio), and GitOps practices to deliver resilient, cost-conscious platforms. Comfortable as a customer-facing engineer, he translates business needs into scalable architectures—from monoliths to microservices and serverless—while evangelizing SRE principles and production excellence. He mentors through pair programming and code review, has line management and hiring experience, and often owns cross-team delivery from ticketing to backlog management. Based in Woking, UK, he’s actively expanding into Rust and keeps abreast of industry tooling and automation to create smooth, automated paths to production.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
A level Accounting, Economics, Computing, & Web Design, A level Accounting, Economics, Computing, & Web Design at Suffolk One
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Github Skills (96)
javascript10
angular10
typescript10
nodejs10
react10
web-developer9
nest9
google-cloud-platform9
web-performance9
nestjs9
earth9
web-framework9
cli8
google-cloud-build8
crud8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tomchinery/action-cable-node
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
Action Cable extracted from Rails 5 and packaged as a Node module
Contributions:2 releases, 28 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsactioncablecablerailsnode-module
tomchinery/.emacs.d
Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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