Tom Lea
Developer at eBay
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Lea is a pragmatic, hands-on developer with 17 years’ experience shaping web platforms and agile team culture, currently building at eBay from London. He specialises in iterative architecture and lifting teams through pragmatic, no-nonsense interventions—whether diving in to fix thorny bugs or steering longer-term strategy. Comfortable across Kotlin, Ruby, TypeScript and Rust, he has a strong track record in full‑stack work and maintaining developer-friendly tooling, including contributions to the geminabox Ruby gem hosting project. Colleagues know him for clear, low‑fi collaboration (pairing and one-to-ones) and a playful, practical approach that leaves teams in measurably better shape.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The University of Manchester
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testing
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console
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (20)
console10
rubygems10
ruby10
sinatra10
ruby-on-rails10
testing9
unit-testing9
css9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
activerecord6
paperclip6
database6
attachment6
capistrano6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
geminabox/geminabox
Jan 2010 - Feb 2016
Really simple rubygem hosting
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:170 commits, 20 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on implementing and refining the core functionality of a Ruby gem hosting service. They added features for gem deletion and renaming of the project. Further contributions include improvements to the user interface by cleaning up CSS, adding delete functionality, and improving the overall visual style. The user also integrated a command-line tool for pushing gems.
hostingrubygemsrailsrubyrubygem
tomlea/fast_http
Nov 2008 - May 2010
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 6 months
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