Tom French
Product Etc. Founding Member Alfred
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom French is an experienced product leader with over 15 years building customer-facing digital products and scaling high-performing teams across energy, retail and fintech. As a founding member at Alfred and former Chief Product Officer at Utility Warehouse, he has led end-to-end product strategy, agile transformation and organisational design to deliver complex, commercially impactful propositions. He pairs a data-first mindset—grounded in statistical modelling and analytics—with hands-on UX and marketing craft to drive acquisition, retention and product-market fit. Tom also brings practical engineering empathy from earlier technical roles and open-source contributions to Java projects like a StatsD client and JavaHamcrest, improving robustness, tests and documentation. A Cambridge-educated natural scientist, he combines analytical rigour with a startup founder’s bias for action, often applying lean experimentation to de-risk new initiatives.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels & GCSEs, A Levels & GCSEs at St Paul's SchoolMaster of Science (MSci) Natural Sciences, Master of Science (MSci) Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (24)
statsd10
testing10
java10
hamcrest10
javas10
junit10
performance-monitoring10
javadoc9
javascript9
rounding9
html5-audio9
layoutmanager9
concurrency9
nio9
dependency-management8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tim-group/java-statsd-client
Jun 2012 - Feb 2015
a java statsd client library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the development of a Java-based StatsD client library. They implemented core features such as incrementing counters, recording gauge values, and timing operations. The user also refactored existing code, added tests, and introduced shorthand convenience methods to simplify the client's usage, including support for gauge deltas and sample rates. Furthermore, they focused on improving the library's robustness by adding exception handling and by using NIO.
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hamcrest/JavaHamcrest
May 2012 - Sep 2018
Java (and original) version of Hamcrest
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:156 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily addressed bugs and improved the codebase within the Java Hamcrest project. Their contributions focused on resolving issues related to the CombinableMatcher and generics in IsEmptyCollection, reflecting a focus on enhancing core matcher functionality and type safety. Further commits involved upgrading dependencies like qdox and jarjar, indicating involvement in build and dependency management, and refactoring the code for improved readability and maintainability. The user also made significant contributions by adding formal JavaDoc to core matchers, which would enhance the project's documentation.
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