Tom Gardiner
Senior Software Engineer at Podfather
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Gardiner is a Senior Software Engineer based in Glasgow with 12 years’ experience building full-stack applications across JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, PHP and multiple databases. He has delivered production systems for banks and enterprises (Tesco Bank, Ageas Group) and now shapes product engineering at Podfather, bringing pragmatic, efficiency-first engineering to each stack. Comfortable on Windows, Linux and Mac, he spans React/React Native front ends to Node/Express back ends and has hands-on experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Tom’s background includes startup and scale environments, giving him a knack for balancing rapid iteration with maintainable architecture. An aspiring musician off-hours, he pairs creative thinking with disciplined engineering practices.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Birmingham City University
Github Skills (53)
internet-radio10
indieweb10
parsedown10
matter-js10
music-streaming9
lastfm9
opus9
music9
mopidy8
flat-file8
transcoding8
docker-compose8
php8
windowing8
hls-stream8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TomboFry/hyperlight
Apr 2017 - May 2020
Hyperlight is (yet another) PHP flat-file blog engine, which is light on code and easily extensible.
Contributions:10 releases, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years
blog-enginecmsflat-fileparsedownphp
TomboFry/microlight
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
A fully IndieWeb-compatible PHP blogging engine
Contributions:2 releases, 214 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years
phpbloggingblogging-engineindieweb
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