Tom Bettany
Senior Backend Lead at Kano Computing
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Bettany is a hands-on senior backend lead with 12 years of experience building and shipping OS-level and cloud SaaS products at Kano Computing, where he progressed from intern to lead and now heads backend engineering. He combines deep technical breadth—from low-level C and Debian-based OS work to modern JavaScript stacks—with practical product delivery, having run update cycles for an OS distributed to over 100,000 devices and helped launch a Windows-based Kano PC. An approachable engineering manager and former Certified Scrum Master, he empowers small teams and bridges OEM/ODM partnerships, licensing, and platform integrations. Grounded in a Mathematics degree from Cambridge, Tom is unusually comfortable moving between firmware, systems engineering, and web services, and quickly adopts new languages and frameworks to solve cross-stack problems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics at University of CambridgeA Level, AAAAa, A Level, AAAAa at Kett 6th FormGCSE, 5 A*, 6 A, GCSE, 5 A*, 6 A at Sprowston High School
Github Skills (71)
drawing10
graphic10
api10
sonic-pi10
wifi10
javascript9
keyboard9
audio9
science9
launcher9
maintenance9
initialize9
python8
media-player8
ubuntu8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
KanoComputing/tactile
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
App to demystify how touch screens work
Contributions:19 PRs, 46 pushes, 19 branches in 10 months
reacttouchspotify
KanoComputing/sonic-pi
Oct 2013 - Sep 2018
Sonic Pi - Making Computer Science Audible
Contributions:843 commits, 44 PRs, 109 pushes in 5 years
pythonscienceaudiblecomputer-sciencesonic
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