Tom Shaw
Freelance Software Developer at Tom Shaw
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Shaw is a founder and systems-focused engineer with 10+ years building resilient infrastructure, automation and delivery platforms across games, enterprise and cloud environments. He co-founded ShipItCon and Rita.ie, leads Rural Ireland Tech Advocates, and brings hands-on server and build engineering experience from roles at Riot Games, Demonware and Oracle. As Principal Automation Engineer at DIGIT Game Studios he blends deep UNIX and scripting expertise with modern container practices—he’s a Docker Captain who admits every slick demo hides a smug bash script. Thomas is passionate about simplifying complex systems using Kaizen principles, favoring solutions intuitive enough for a child yet robust at scale. He pairs product-minded leadership with practical open-source craftsmanship and a track record of making test and deployment pipelines more reliable and repeatable. Based in Dublin with a joint BSc in Business Administration and Computer Science, he focuses on community-driven initiatives that make tech accessible outside major urban centres.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
VFX and Animation, VFX and Animation at Confetti Institute of Creative TechnologiesGCSE, GCSE at Alderman White School
English, French
Github Skills (88)
docker-machine10
docker-registry10
docker-container10
dockerfile10
ecosystem10
docker-swarm10
golang10
container10
go10
documentation10
docker10
seccomp10
docker-image10
moby10
chroot10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tomwillfixit/arc-welder
Jul 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
tomwillfixit/tomwillfixit.github.io
Mar 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:113 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
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