Tom Beddard
Director at KPV Lab Edinburgh
Linlithgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Beddard is a director and seasoned web application developer with nearly two decades building interactive platforms and data visualisations. As Director of KPV LAB Edinburgh (formerly HyperDigital) and CTO within the KPV Group, he blends product leadership with hands-on engineering to create next-generation experiences for exploring information and knowledge. His career spans founding a digital studio and senior technical roles, showing a rare mix of startup entrepreneurship and sustained technical delivery. With a PhD in Laser Physics from St Andrews, he brings a research-led, analytical approach to UX and system design that helps turn complex datasets into intuitive visual narratives. Based in Linlithgow, Scotland, Tom is comfortable moving between strategic direction and the codebase, often bridging academic rigour and commercial product focus.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Laser Physics, PhD Laser Physics at University of St AndrewsBSc Physics, BSc Physics at University of Nottingham
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Github Skills (200)
atom-editor10
hot-reload10
svg10
declarative10
3d10
javascript10
gulp10
webgl10
typescript10
canvas10
user-interface10
webpack-plugin10
webpack10
frontend10
server10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
subblue/applying-maths-book
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
muniere/gulp-ect-simple
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
Simple ect file compiler with gulp
Contributions:2 PRs in 5 years 1 month
compilergulp
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