Tom Longridge
Senior Engineering Manager (SDKs) at SmartBear
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Longridge is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Bath with 11 years of experience leading SDK and open-source teams to deliver cross-platform developer tooling. He currently manages a team maintaining Bugsnag SDKs across 40+ platforms, blending hands-on coding (notably contributions to bugsnag-laravel, bugsnag-js and bugsnag-android) with planning, custom Jira automation and cross-functional coordination. Comfortable across Java, PHP, JavaScript and native Android, he focuses on pragmatic, well-documented solutions that improve observability and runtime diagnostics. Colleagues describe him as an adaptable, thoughtful leader who prioritises a calm, productive team culture while still unblocking technical problems personally. His background ranges from banking payment releases and airline e-commerce delivery to unit-test tooling, giving him a rare mix of operational rigor and product-focused engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honors Computer Science, BSc Honors Computer Science at University of Bath
Github Skills (26)
debugging10
error-reporting10
debug10
javascript10
laravel-mix10
testing10
laravel10
java10
ruby10
javas10
php10
sdk10
bugsnag10
android10
error-log10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bugsnag/bugsnag-ruby
May 2019 - Jul 2020
BugSnag error monitoring & reporting software for rails, sinatra, rack and ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 47 reviews, 44 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the integration of the Bugsnag error monitoring and reporting software with other systems, specifically focusing on the Que and Rake integrations. They fixed bugs related to the Que integration, ensuring proper initialization and test failures. The user also enhanced the functionality of the Rake integration, including adding runtime versioning to provide better context for error reports. Additionally, the user made modifications to the configuration and reporting of runtime versions within the Bugsnag system.
bug-tracking-toolerror-monitoringrackexception-handlinghotel-booking
bugsnag/bugsnag-laravel
May 2019 - Feb 2020
BugSnag notifier for the Laravel PHP framework. Monitor and report Laravel errors.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 24 reviews, 35 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the Bugsnag Laravel notifier, focusing on integrating Laravel version reporting into the application's device data. They added functionality to capture and report the Laravel runtime version. The commits also included updates to address vulnerabilities, enhance session tracking, and various bug fixes and code style improvements within the service provider. Version updates and changelog modifications were also part of the user's contributions.
monitorerror-notificationerror-monitoringexception-handlingnotifications
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