Tom Dickinson
Director at Ashpaw Games
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Dickinson is a hands-on engineering leader and indie game director with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems and product-focused platforms. He has led cross-functional squads at Elastic Path and architected resilient microservices and testing strategies, while remaining an active coder exploring LLMs and generative AI to boost team and customer productivity. His research background (PhD work at The Open University) and recent nanodegrees in deep learning and computer vision give him a strong footing in ML, NLP, and event detection applied to real products. Tom has driven domain-driven designs and event sourcing on Kafka, introduced multi-level automated testing in CI pipelines, and mentored engineers through significant rewrites and legacy refactors. Now directing Ashpaw Games, he’s translating his systems and AI experience into indie game development, blending technical rigor with creative product delivery. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of preserving architectural integrity—keeping codebases from becoming “big balls of mud” while shipping features.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at The Open UniversitySimon Langton Boys GrammarBSc Hons Computer Science, BSc Hons Computer Science at Newcastle UniversityDeep Learning, Deep Learning at Udacity
English
Stackoverflow
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30kreached
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Github Skills (30)
advanced-search10
twitter-api10
mining10
twitter-search10
twitter9
searching9
wordnet9
conceptnet9
python8
instagram8
neo4j7
property-graph7
xml6
full-text-search6
ms-access6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tomkdickinson/hexagonal-cart-service
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
tomkdickinson/wordnet_conceptnet_neo4j
May 2017 - Apr 2019
A python script that converts WordNet and ConceptNet into a Neo4j property graph
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 10 months
pythonwordnetpython-scriptneo4jgraph
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