Tom Cairns
Founder at Raidne
Shaftesbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Cairns is a founder and systems architect with 14 years' experience building high-availability transport data platforms, best known for creating Realtime Trains—an independent UK service handling over 50 million monthly enquiries. He combines hands-on software development, infrastructure and systems architecture with commercial and stakeholder management, having negotiated data licensing and integrations across Network Rail, TfL and multiple train operators. Tom has led teams of up to fifteen, managed hardware location-tracking projects through regulatory requirements, and provides consultancy to rail industry clients and a growing fintech as lead technical architect. Based in Shaftesbury, he pairs a First Class MSc in Computer Science from Southampton with practical product instincts, and contributes his technical and due-diligence skills to charity governance supporting healthcare projects in Zambia.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Master's Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of SouthamptonA2 Level, Computing, Physics and Maths, A2 Level, Computing, Physics and Maths at Brockenhurst College
Github Skills (3)
parser7
gamemaker6
reader6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
swlines/CIFReader---Java
Nov 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year 4 months
swlines/CIFReader
Sep 2011 - Apr 2012
CIF Reader is a parser for Network Rail & ATOC CIF and ATCO-CIF files
Contributions:73 commits in 7 months
cif-filesnetwork-railrailreaderparser
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