Tom Archer
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Frontend Focus) at Archa
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Archer is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with nine years of experience, currently focused on frontend engineering at Archa and previously delivering interactive campaigns and gamified web experiences for clients like McDonald’s ANZ, PwC and KPMG. He blends web, games and 3D interests with solid backend reliability—having contributed tests and robust parsing/error handling to the widely used FontTools project and other open-source font libraries. Comfortable across the stack, Tom has a track record building product features that scale (from Plum’s growth phase to monetisation platforms) and shipping polished, user-facing interfaces. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from UCL and brings a knack for turning domain knowledge (fonts, games, web) into pragmatic, well-tested engineering solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Economics and Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree Economics and Philosophy at The University of ManchesterUniversity College London
English
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
opentype10
fonts10
pytest10
python10
unit-test10
testing10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fonttools/fonttools
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
A library to manipulate font files from Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom focused on enhancing the functionality and reliability of the fonttools library. Their contributions involved implementing checks and exceptions in the `feaLib` module to ensure the correct parsing of OpenType features, addressing potential errors in GSUB statements. They also improved the `ufoLib` module by removing duplicate glyphs within kerning groups and writing tests. Furthermore, the user added tests to ensure order preservation and implemented exception handling for class definition within the `otlLib`.
pythonfontphoneticsfontswoff
FBSO2811/Porticode
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 18 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 day
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