Thomas Maxwell
Vice President - External Client Platforms
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Maxwell is a pragmatic software leader with 11 years’ experience building and modernizing financial services platforms, now serving as Vice President for External Client Platforms at Morgan Stanley. He combines hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, React and microservices with a strong UX sensibility, consistently delivering robust, easy-to-use client-facing UIs and APIs. Thomas has a track record of turning ambiguous, acquisition-driven projects into coherent products—leading cross-functional teams, defining roadmaps, and balancing people management with principal-level technical ownership. He drove zero-downtime CI/CD migrations, AWS OIDC integrations, and micro-frontend migrations that reduced deployment risk and improved developer velocity. Based in Glasgow, he pairs enterprise-grade engineering discipline with a knack for pragmatic tooling and community-driven standards that accelerate organizational maturity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Strathclyde
Github Skills (13)
jpegtran9
react8
documentation7
javascript7
tac6
open-source6
mosaic6
typescript4
window-manager4
scaffolding3
testing3
nodejs3
tiling2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ConfuddledPenguin/Folio-Tracker
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:49 commits in 19 days
ConfuddledPenguin/Gizmoball
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:107 commits in 2 months
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