Tom Hipkin
Software Engineer III at GoCardless
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Hipkin is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 12 years’ experience building public-sector digital services and leading engineering teams from developer to Lead Developer roles before joining GoCardless. He blends pragmatic backend expertise in Ruby on Rails and Go with modern cloud-native practices—Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform—and a strong focus on TDD, CI/CD and observability across AWS and GCP. Comfortable across TypeScript, Kotlin and SQL, he has a track record of turning user-centred requirements into maintainable, production-grade systems in agile, multidisciplinary teams. Known for pragmatic technical leadership, he often bridges hands-on delivery and team coaching while keeping accessibility, testing and operational reliability front of mind.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Kent
Github Skills (97)
jenkins-api-plugin10
energy10
payment-gateway10
cloud-platform10
jenkins-plugin10
django10
payment-integration10
payment10
container10
adyen10
square10
payment-processing10
jenkins10
roda10
api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dxw/rails-template
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
A template repository for use when starting a new app with Rails. It includes dxw default project configuration and decision records.
Contributions:93 reviews, 183 commits, 109 PRs in 3 years 3 months
templaterecordsdecisionrailsruby
dxw/dalmatian-frontend
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
This frontend is a user interface to interact with infrastructures hosted on Dalmatian.
Contributions:27 reviews, 86 PRs, 120 pushes in 1 year 8 months
user-interfacehostedinteractinfrastructuresfrontend
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