Tom Lingham
General Manager, Engineering at carsales
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolTom Lingham is a commercially minded engineering leader with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native platforms and customer-facing products across enterprise and high-growth companies in the Greater Melbourne area. Currently General Manager, Engineering at carsales, he has a track record of scaling teams and delivery—previously leading APAC engineering at Pepperstone to a 60x deployment frequency improvement and enabling market expansion into Vietnam and China. Technically grounded and product-focused, he specialises in modern stacks, micro-frontends and autoscaling AWS infrastructure that shorten time-to-market from months to days. Tom is skilled at translating commercial goals into engineering priorities, aligning cross-functional teams to deliver acquisitions and integrations (notably supporting MYOB’s FlareHR acquisition). He thrives under tight timelines and resource constraints, consistently building robust, testable systems and empowered teams that drive customer stickiness from day one. A pragmatic communicator and systems thinker, he combines hands-on technical depth with strong business instincts to turn strategy into measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate II - Multimedia, Certificate II - Multimedia at Beechworth Secondary CollegeCert IV, Interactive Digital Media, Cert IV, Interactive Digital Media at Swinburne University of Technology
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Github Skills (130)
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javascript10
laravel10
shim10
string-matching10
router10
matching10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TomLingham/Laravel-Searchy
Jul 2014 - Oct 2020
Unmaintained: Laravel Searchy makes user driven searching easy with fuzzy search, basic string matching and more to come!
Contributions:20 releases, 89 commits, 35 PRs in 6 years 4 months
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iag-abd/macgooey
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 26 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 month
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