Tom Godkin
Senior Lead Software Engineer (VP) at JPMorganChase
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Godkin is a senior software leader with a decade of cross-industry experience building and scaling engineering teams and infrastructure, currently serving as a Senior Lead Software Engineer (VP) in London. He has led engineering at Sano Genetics, translating bioinformatics and precision medicine goals into production-ready platforms, and recently moved into a leadership role at JPMorgan Chase. His background spans consulting, green energy, finance, market research and R&D, giving him a pragmatic, systems-level approach to solving domain-specific problems. Equally comfortable in hands-on principal engineering roles and executive leadership, he focuses on reliability, developer productivity and scalable architecture. Tom pairs technical depth—grounded in a BEng in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and a postgraduate diploma in Bioinformatics—with a habit of volunteering locally, reflecting a practical commitment beyond the desk. A steady operator in high-change environments, he often bridges research-informed requirements with production constraints to accelerate delivery of complex software.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PGDip Bioinformatics, PGDip Bioinformatics at Birkbeck, University of LondonBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at King's College London
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
testing10
interpreter10
runc10
specification10
spawning10
podman10
cloud-foundry10
continuous-delivery10
elm10
containerd10
bdd10
golang10
test-doubles10
compiler10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
BooleanCat/igo
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
golanggolang-librarygolang-standardfakesinterfaces
BooleanCat/BooleanCat.github.io
Nov 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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