Tom Foyster
Lead Engineer at Taptap Send
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Foyster is a Lead Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications across agencies and enterprise teams, currently leading a squad at Taptap Send focused on combating financial crime using Node, React, Python and Kafka. He combines product-facing client work with internal engineering leadership, having progressed from lead developer roles in agencies to staff engineering at ComplyAdvantage and React tech lead for large consumer products. Tom is pragmatic about scalability and usability, shipping reliable solutions across front-end and back-end boundaries and mentoring teams through complex domain challenges. Based in Leicester, he brings a practical background in PHP and legacy systems alongside modern event-driven architectures, which helps him bridge technical debt and forward-looking platform designs.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
HND Multimedia IT, HND Multimedia IT at University of Gloucestershire
Github Skills (9)
htaccess6
boilerplate6
seo6
security5
php5
wordpress4
magento4
wordpress-plugin4
schema-org2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Creare/WP-Address-Schema
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 1 month
schema-orgwordpressaddressstandardswordpress-plugin
Creare/magento-htaccess
Sep 2013 - Mar 2014
A htaccess boilerplate for all Magento Community installations. Features focus on speed, SEO and security.
Contributions:3 commits in 6 months
speedboilerplatemagento2-modulesecurityphp
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