Tom Fryer
Backend Developer at King & McGaw
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Fryer is a pragmatic backend developer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining Ruby/Rails systems and microservices for retail, finance, and scientific research. He transitioned from a Pharmacology degree into IT, bringing a methodical, data-minded approach to software design and a long-standing commitment to clean, object-oriented code. His background spans FileMaker integrations, Flex/ActionScript, iOS prototypes in Objective-C, and modern Rails apps with Vue and Heroku deployments, showing a rare breadth across legacy and contemporary stacks. Currently contributing to retail and art-print platforms and backend services at Myorb and King & McGaw, he focuses on delivering reusable solutions that balance the right tools with cost-effective engineering. Colleagues value his blend of practical engineering, integration experience, and an inclination to choose pragmatic, maintainable solutions over novelty.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Pharmacology, BSc Pharmacology at University of LeedsMSc IT, MSc IT at Aston University
English, French
Github Skills (26)
json-api6
rails6
fast-jsonapi6
ruby-on-rails5
json-api-serializer5
django-react5
activerecord5
api5
ruby5
audit5
netflix5
json4
serializer4
json-ld4
firebase4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fryertom44/logview
Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
fryertom44/TrafficContacts
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 17 days
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