Summary
Thomas Waterfall is a London-based Director and senior full-stack contract developer with 11 years of experience delivering web applications, automated testing, and deployment pipelines for startups and global enterprises. He combines hands-on expertise in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, AWS, Linux, Docker, and MariaDB with a knack for solving complex production problems and shipping reliable systems. As founder/owner of Server Surge Limited since 2015 and a repeat contractor at firms like YLD, News UK and Bulb, he bridges product needs and engineering execution across frontend and backend. Comfortable in both greenfield builds and legacy modernization, he brings a pragmatic, ops-aware approach to development that minimizes surprises in production. Despite a strong enterprise track record, he retains a hacker mindset from early entrepreneurial work, favoring practical automation and incremental delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma Software Engineering, BTEC National Diploma Software Engineering at The Henley College
2:1 BSc Computer Science Software Engineering, 2:1 BSc Computer Science Software Engineering at Nottingham Trent University
Chiltern Edge