Tom Kadwill
Engineering Manager at Funding Circle UK
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Kadwill is an Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience leading backend teams and shaping product delivery at Funding Circle. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails expertise with team building and operational know-how, having hired and led engineering teams, improved release processes, and tackled production issues across startups and scale-ups. Previously he led backend architecture and integrations at Ryalto and Babylon, shipping features like news feeds, NHS integrations, and internationalisation projects. An active contributor to the Rails ecosystem, he has improved core documentation and fixed subtle ActiveRecord bugs, underscoring a pragmatic focus on maintainability. Based in Stony Stratford, Tom brings a mix of technical craftsmanship and people leadership, preferring to coach engineers through pair programming and code reviews. Colleagues describe him as a steady executor who surfaces practical solutions for slow third‑party APIs and complex integrations.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at University of Hertfordshire
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Github Skills (14)
activerecord10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
actioncable10
actionmailer10
ruby10
documentation9
actionpack9
testing8
struct6
api6
apostrophe6
mocking6
database6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 14 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on documentation and bug fixes within the Ruby on Rails framework. Their contributions involved updating and improving the documentation for ActionMailer and ActionCable, ensuring accuracy and clarity. They also addressed minor issues, such as fixing typos in ActionCable and ActionPack, and resolved a counter-cache double increment bug in ActiveRecord. Furthermore, the user improved documentation and tests for URL functionalities.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
tomkadwill/atom-rails
Mar 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrubyrails-developmentruby-on
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