Tom Manderson
CTO & Head Of Engineering at Alpaca Travel
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolTom Manderson is a hands-on engineering leader and founder with 14+ years building scalable, secure multi-tenant platforms and products used by millions. As CTO & Head of Engineering at Solara Health he architects and ships an ISO 27001-aligned, serverless patient-engagement platform (Next.js, React Native, GraphQL, AWS) that emphasizes reliability, privacy and FHIR interoperability. He previously co-founded and scaled Alpaca Travel—a B2B/B2G SaaS awarded for travel technology—and grew a Melbourne digital agency to 20 people, combining product strategy with cross-functional UX and engineering leadership. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, he runs secure SDLCs, threat modeling and tenant isolation while keeping delivery velocity high. He also researches spatial data, ML/NLP, knowledge graphs and generative AI through Alpaca R&D and is completing MIT professional coursework in AI/ML. A curious problem-solver, he prefers clear success metrics and building cost-effective platforms that endure.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BMM-MMSD, Software Development, Web Development, Multimedia, BMM-MMSD, Software Development, Web Development, Multimedia at Swinburne University of TechnologyProfessional Certificate Program in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Professional Certificate Program in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence at MIT Professional Education
Github Skills (187)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AlpacaTravel/filter-expressions
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
Basic array structure that can conditionally evaluate objects
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 8 months
neumorphismarrayevaluatejavascriptfilter
AlpacaTravel/graph-sdk
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
JavaScript SDKs for interacting with the Alpaca GraphQL API via JavaScript/Typescript
Contributions:18 commits, 46 PRs, 153 pushes in 1 year 4 months
apigraphql-apitraveljavascriptsdks
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