Tom Killingback
Hardware Engineer at Jump Trading Group
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Killingback is a hardware engineer with nine years of hands-on experience blending mechatronics, computer science and maker-minded problem solving, currently building low-latency systems at Jump Trading Group. He cut his teeth at UNSW leading the Sunswift solar car computer science team and progressing through intern and engineering roles into a full-time hardware position, demonstrating both technical depth and team leadership. Comfortable across software and hardware boundaries, Tom has experience in embedded systems, automation and production environments from solar racing to trading infrastructure. He also tutors programming fundamentals and has practical AV and lighting experience from festival and competition work, showing a knack for applied engineering in diverse settings. Based in London, he brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach—equally at home debugging firmware, orchestrating team projects, or automating a smart home.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
RedlandsAustralian International School, SingaporeUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (4)
canopen8
robotics7
ros6
team-project5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tback123/COMP1511-Teaching
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:106 commits, 78 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
tback123/basic-bom
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
A basic bill of materials platform.
Contributions:7 PRs, 86 pushes, 9 branches in 6 months
materials-platformbill
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