Tom Drysdale
Art Director Lead Designer at Freelance
Auchterarder, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Drysdale is a freelance Art Director and Lead Designer with over 15 years of agency experience helping brands and agencies turn strategic insight into award‑worthy creative across print, digital, experiential and packaging. Based in Scotland, he’s led campaigns and pitch work for major FMCG, alcohol, tech and retail clients and has a track record of lifting brand performance to deliver measurable ROI for startups and established businesses alike. Equally comfortable leading teams or working independently, he specialises in brand strategy, identity and roll‑out—ensuring creative ideas are rooted in customer insight and commercially effective. A First Class Graphic Design graduate, he pairs craft-level visual execution with practical production know‑how from pitch to shelf, and uniquely combines commercial creative work with contributions to open-source developer tooling in education-focused remote lab projects.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design, First Class, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design, First Class at The University of DundeeNational Qualification (N.Q.), 3D Design & Portfolio Preparation, National Qualification (N.Q.), 3D Design & Portfolio Preparation at Cardonald Collage
Github Skills (8)
golang10
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
auth10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Nerzal/gocloak
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
golang keycloak client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 6 PRs, 21 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Tom's primary contribution focuses on enhancing the gocloak client library, specifically by adding methods for interacting with the Keycloak protection API. They implemented functions to retrieve, update, and create resources using access tokens, enabling production environments where admin credentials aren't available. These changes included modifying existing client and test files, as well as updates to the main gocloak interface. Furthermore, the user added permission-related functionality, including permission ticket creation and management.
golangkeycloak-clientkeycloakkeycloak-adapterauth
timdrysdale/pidcontroller
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:102 pushes, 24 branches, 3 tags in 1 year 3 months
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