Summary
Tom Galligan is a Senior Platform Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native, high-performance backend systems for research and high-stakes engineering teams. Currently at Our Future Health, he applies production-grade GCP, Terraform and CI/CD practices to support the UK’s largest health research programme after a stint delivering real-time integrations and orchestration tooling at Beamery. His background spans performance-sensitive roles at Williams Racing and research-driven projects at Oxford, where he embedded ML into large-scale simulation codes—demonstrating a rare blend of scientific modelling and pragmatic engineering. Comfortable in Go, Node.js and serverless architectures, he prioritises resilient, observable platforms that bridge data-intensive science and operational reliability.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, Distinction, Master's degree, Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, Distinction at Brasenose College, University of Oxford