Tom Gibson
Principal Engineer at Cloudsmith
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Gibson is a Principal Engineer based in Belfast with over a decade of commercial experience designing and delivering large-scale asynchronous, distributed, and latency-sensitive systems for fintech and SaaS. He is polyglot by practice—having shipped production services in Python, C++, Go, Java, and C#—and champions using the right tool for the job across cloud and hybrid platform architectures. Tom blends hands-on systems design with DevOps and IaC rigor, implementing Terraform, Kubernetes/ECS, Helm and Chef-driven rollouts with observability baked in via DataDog and CloudWatch. He has led globally distributed engineering teams and scaled delivery using Agile at scale as a certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile Practitioner. Currently building the software supply chain at Cloudsmith, he pairs platform-level thinking with low-latency trading experience, an uncommon mix that helps bridge operational reliability with high-throughput performance.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing Science, BSc (Hons) Computing Science at Ulster University
English
Github Skills (74)
django-rest9
api9
command-line-interface9
rest-framework9
coreapi9
cli8
plex8
behavior-driven-development8
command-line8
django-rest-framework8
oop8
testing7
django7
openapi7
relay7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MrTam/homebridge-watchman
Jun 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
MrTam/dot-files
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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