Thomas Punt
Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Rayleigh, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Punt is a software engineer and site reliability engineer with 11 years' experience, currently helping manage Google's virtualised network for Cloud. He holds a first-class BSc in Web Technologies and has deep interests in compilers, concurrency models, and systems programming across C, C++, Elixir, PHP, Go, JavaScript and Python. An active PHP internals contributor and maintainer on projects like pthreads, he has a track record of fixing subtle bugs, improving memory management and enhancing parsers and static analysis tools such as tolerant-php-parser and Phan. He also founded and authors PHPInternals.net, demonstrating both technical depth and a talent for explaining language internals. Based in Rayleigh, England, he combines low-level expertise with production SRE experience at scale.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Web Technologies, First class honours, Bachelor of Science - BS, Web Technologies, First class honours at University of Portsmouth11 GCSEs from A*-B, 11 GCSEs from A*-B at Westcliff High School for BoysWestcliff High School for Boys (Sixth Form)
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Github Skills (26)
astm10
parserator10
debug10
parser10
static-analysis10
multithreading10
analyzer10
memory-management10
php10
thread10
hyper-threading10
threaded10
unit-testing9
c119
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
krakjoe/pthreads
Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
Threading for PHP - Share Nothing, Do Everything :)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 32 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on maintaining and improving the PHP pthreads extension. Their contributions included refactoring and optimizing code related to class preparation, function copying, and memory management. The changes aimed to fix bugs, address memory leaks, and improve the efficiency of the extension's core functionalities. The user also updated examples and addressed issues related to class declarations within threads, indicating a strong understanding of the library's inner workings and threading principles.
everythingphpphp81php73nothing
microsoft/tolerant-php-parser
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
An early-stage PHP parser designed for IDE usage scenarios.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 9 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on improving the PHP parser's functionality and fixing existing issues. Their work included removing unused code, updating type comments, and adding support for new features like implementing interfaces in anonymous classes. They also addressed specific issues within the parser and added tests to validate the new implementations. The contributions centered on enhancing the parsing capabilities of the library.
stagesql-parsererror-tolerantphpast
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