Thomas Hunter
Senior Software Engineer at Sainsbury's
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Hunter is a Senior Software Engineer based in Leicester with 10 years' experience building dependable systems and fostering strong, stable engineering teams. He has progressed through multiple technical roles at Sainsbury's since 2018, moving from associate to senior engineer while delivering production services in a large retail environment. A First Class Computer Science graduate from De Montfort University, he pairs solid academic grounding with practical experience across placement and full-time roles at Netready and Sainsbury’s. Thomas is known for pragmatic problem-solving and mentoring colleagues to improve delivery and code quality across teams. Outside day-to-day work he values long-term reliability and maintainability, often prioritising architectural choices that reduce operational risk.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Physics, Computing & Maths, High School, Physics, Computing & Maths at Lutterworth CollegeBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First Class Degree, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First Class Degree at De Montfort University
English
Github Skills (36)
architecture7
health7
jenkins6
datawedge6
linux6
security6
vagrant5
mongodb5
android-app5
emberjs5
kubernetes4
mesh4
rails4
ruby4
devops4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thunter1000/k8-service-mesh-demo
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Scripts for demonstrating the use of a service mesh in kubernetes. This includes Linkerd and Istio
Contributions:57 commits, 18 PRs, 17 pushes in 11 months
meshistiok8skubernetesservicemesh
jsretail/kustomize-action
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:7 PRs, 22 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
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