Summary
Tom Matthews is an experienced IT professional with over twenty years managing large-scale heterogeneous UNIX and Windows hybrid-cloud environments, specializing in security, platform management, and automation. He brings hands-on expertise in vulnerability and risk analysis, Ansible-driven configuration, server virtualization, platform consolidation, and compliance-as-code. Comfortable scripting in Python, Perl and shell, he has driven software packaging, deployment automation, data migrations and disaster recovery across complex estates. Based in London, Tom is now focused on expanding into cybersecurity, application support and penetration testing roles that leverage his operational depth. He combines practical system administration with a security-first mindset, delivering auditable, reproducible platform outcomes. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often bridges the gap between infrastructure engineering and security assurance to reduce risk while enabling agile delivery.
11 years of coding experience
BSc, BSc at Kingston University