Tom Goodman
Director Consulting Expert (Higher Education)
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Goodman is an award-winning computer scientist and community-focused tech leader with 11 years’ experience bridging research, software engineering, and event-driven outreach in Birmingham. Currently Director Consulting Expert (Higher Education) at CGI, he combines a PhD-level background in signal processing with hands-on delivery across software teams, academia, and industry projects. He founded HackTheMidlands and organises TechMids Conf, championing inclusive pathways into tech while also serving as a university teaching fellow and governor, showing a rare mix of technical depth and civic stewardship. Tom’s past roles span research fellowships, product-focussed development, and live-event engineering (including large-scale esports streaming), reflecting strong systems thinking under real-world constraints. Colleagues value him for turning complex mathematical ideas into practical solutions and for cultivating approachable communities that help people reskill and connect.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Signal Processing of Acoustic Music with Mathematical Models, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Signal Processing of Acoustic Music with Mathematical Models at University of BirminghamGCSEs and A Levels, GCSEs and A Levels at John Taylor High School
English, German, French
Github Skills (39)
camera-api10
textbook10
intel10
hardware10
game-theory10
payment-methods10
sdk10
warnings10
realsense10
in-app-purchase10
computer-vision10
science10
ghc9
servant9
hackage9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HackTheMidlands/hackthemidlands
Apr 2017 - Jul 2020
:tada: The official website for HackTheMidlands!
Contributions:58 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 3 months
javascript
TauOmicronMu/tauomicronmu.github.io
Jun 2016 - May 2022
My Personal Site
Contributions:230 commits, 1 PR, 199 pushes in 5 years 11 months
reactnextjs
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