Tom Parkin
Senior Consultant Software Engineer at Katalix Ltd
Bolton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Parkin is a Senior Consultant Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience spanning Linux kernel drivers to WAN protocols and consumer set-top box middleware. He has led stability and performance efforts for large STB deployments, shipped device drivers and DRM integrations, and designed scalable networking daemons such as ProL2TP and ProPPP that handle thousands of simultaneous connections. Comfortable across the full stack, he combines low-level systems expertise (including kernel contributions to net/l2tp) with product-focused R&D like satellite tracking and video streaming stacks based on GStreamer. Tom excels at porting and modernising infrastructure—migrating legacy SCMs to git and parallelising daemons for multi-core systems—and thrives on tricky debugging and field deployment support. Based in Bolton, UK, he brings a practical engineering mindset that turns deep protocol and kernel knowledge into reliable, production-grade solutions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Electronic Systems, MEng, Electronic Systems at Durham University
Github Skills (87)
coverage10
projector10
linux9
golang9
testing9
programming-language9
security9
fuzzer9
fedora9
interaction9
security-vulnerability9
xrandr9
selinux9
kernel9
manage9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
katalix/l2tp-ktest
Jan 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 5 months
katalix/go-l2tp
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:338 commits, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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