Tom Cowling
Software Engineer at Confluent
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Cowling is a software engineer with 11 years' experience specialising in site reliability and cloud infrastructure, currently working at Confluent after multi-role tenures at Palantir. He focuses on delivering reliable products through automation and pragmatic architecture, blending hands-on engineering with scalable operational practice. Comfortable across diverse environments and scales, he brings deep cloud engineering experience from roles titled Cloud Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer. An adaptable, self-driven learner with an MPhys in Physics from the University of Manchester, he often applies a scientific approach to problem solving and optimization. Not obviously stated but evident from his background: he thrives in high-complexity systems where tooling and automation materially reduce operational friction.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys, Physics, 2:1, MPhys, Physics, 2:1 at The University of Manchester
German, French
Stackoverflow
1,034reputation
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Github Skills (45)
monitoring9
networking9
security9
amazon9
csi9
vagrant9
k8s9
kernel9
puppet8
google-cloud8
aws8
cni8
terraform-provider8
amazon-ebs8
bpf8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tlcowling/profile
May 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
tlcowling/puppet-wireguard
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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