Tom Allpress
Staff Software Engineer at Automata
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Allpress is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with eight years of experience building cloud-native, data-intensive backends for robotics and lab automation. At Automata he architects edge-first orchestration systems that coordinate distributed workcells, focusing on reliable messaging, runtime ownership, and developer-friendly platforms. He is proficient in Go and Python and has operated production services using Kafka, gRPC, AWS, Terraform and Kubernetes across high-traffic and IoT contexts. Previously at Limejump and earlier startups he delivered resilient microservices and learned to translate real-world constraints into pragmatic system designs. He combines hands-on coding with cross-team mentorship and infrastructure ownership, routinely moving between design, implementation and ops. Outside engineering, his background in mathematics and philosophy underpins a methodical, systems-thinking approach to complex problems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development Programming, Software Development Programming at MakersBachelor's degree Mathematics and Philosophy, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Philosophy at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (35)
mysql9
dashboard9
monitoring9
analytics9
explore9
prometheus9
data-visualization9
elasticsearch9
ssh8
influxdb8
go8
robot8
composable8
sdk8
grafana8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
newtdogg/poker-bot
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 87 commits, 75 pushes in 18 days
tallpress/dot-files
Mar 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 2 months
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