Thomas Hartill
Senior Software Engineer at Rilla
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolThomas Hartill is a Senior Software Engineer and systems architect based in Auckland with a decade of experience building data-intensive, event-driven distributed systems and server-side platforms. He excels at translating complex domain requirements into pragmatic microservices and event-sourced architectures, with hands-on experience deploying Node.js serverless solutions on AWS and driving infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD improvements. Thomas has led risk-remediation and incremental migration efforts for enterprise systems, designing synchronization mechanisms that reduced delivery risk while enabling safer, incremental replacements. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs deep technical analysis and optimisation with stakeholder-facing skills—educating teams on domain-driven and event-driven design to unlock new product capabilities. He brings a meticulous, value-focused approach and a willingness to adapt his strong opinions when evidence suggests a better path. A not-obvious strength is his track record of combining architecture-level thinking with day-to-day engineering delivery, ensuring designs are both elegant and operationally practical.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (22)
shell-extension10
gnome-shell10
system-tray9
gjs9
workspace9
gnome9
rollupjs9
kde-plasma8
dock8
xfce8
tray7
taskbar7
shell7
html6
pygobject6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Tomha/gnome-shell-extension-workspace-switcher
May 2017 - Jan 2019
GNOME Shell extension for viewing and changing the current workspace.
Contributions:78 commits, 1 PR, 55 pushes in 1 year 8 months
gnome-shell-extensiongjsworkspacegnomegnome-shell
Tomha/gnome-shell-extension-netspeed-plus
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 30 pushes, 5 branches in 15 days
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