Tom Gladhill
SaaS Product Developer at Independent technical contractor
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Gladhill is an experienced software engineer and architect with over a decade building and scaling web systems across startups, government and media. He combines hands-on Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript and Go development with leadership roles from lead developer to CTO, shipping products and devops practices for teams and customers. Notable work includes refactoring taxonomy and publishing tooling for GOV.UK and rebuilding high-traffic Rails services, plus pragmatic use of NLP and ML to improve content workflows. Based in Whistler, BC, he helps bring ideas to market as a freelance SaaS product developer and has driven company-wide AI adoption and agentic tooling as a CTO. Tom favors code-as-craft, mob-programming and collaborative engineering practices that boost team productivity and product quality. His background spans everything from CI/CD and Terraform-powered infrastructure to rapid prototyping in public-sector digital transformation.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (5)
data-modeling10
taxonomy10
back-end-development10
ruby10
api-design9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 25 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on refactoring and extending the `Taxonomy` module within the `whitehall` repository, which is focused on publishing government content. Their work involved renaming classes, refactoring code to improve namespace organization, and creating parsers for root taxons. These changes suggest a focus on improving the data model and API used to manage the structure of government content.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
whoojemaflip/aoc
Dec 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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