Tom Lord
Technical Lead at carwow
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Lord is a Technical Lead with 12 years’ experience building and scaling full‑stack web products across high-growth consumer and education platforms. Currently leading engineering at carwow, he has driven re-architecture efforts, SEO and performance improvements, and productised CMS and data services to empower cross-functional teams. His background spans security-conscious development at Detica, Ruby on Rails APIs and Ember front-ends for EdTech at Show My Homework, and hands-on pricing and CRM integrations for car leasing — giving him strong end-to-end ownership from data models to measurable A/B-tested user experiences. Collected experience in performance tooling (Lighthouse), GDPR-era security work, and internal recruitment highlights a blend of technical depth and team-building. Based in England with a BSc in Mathematics from Warwick, he pairs analytical rigour with pragmatic product instincts to simplify complex systems and surface measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, 2:1 at University of WarwickA Levels, Maths, Further maths, Physics, Computing, A A A A, A Levels, Maths, Further maths, Physics, Computing, A A A A at St Benedict's Catholic School
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
linter10
regular-expression10
localization10
html10
mri10
activemodel10
static-code-analysis10
searching10
password-strength10
rubocop10
programming-language10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tom-lord/dotfiles
Jun 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes in 3 years 9 months
tom-lord/regexp-examples
Nov 2014 - Mar 2021
Generate strings that match a given regular expression
Contributions:39 releases, 152 commits, 41 PRs in 6 years 5 months
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