Tom Pearson
Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Pearson is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 13 years of software engineering and leadership experience, currently solving mission-critical problems at Palantir from his base in London. He combines a First Class Computer Science degree from Oxford with hands-on work across startups and enterprises—leading platform teams at EA and Playfish and building post-trade systems at Morgan Stanley. Equally comfortable designing system architecture and shipping front-end features, he excels in people-facing roles and cross-team collaboration. An avid technologist and clear communicator, he also contributes to open-source front-end projects like the Sparks typeface for text-based sparklines, demonstrating attention to UX and practical documentation.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA(Hons), Computer Science, First Class Honours, BA(Hons), Computer Science, First Class Honours at Oxford University
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
nodejs10
npm10
front-end-development10
package10
typography9
website-design9
analytics7
vector-graphics6
javascript6
dropdown6
bezier6
raphael6
sorting6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aftertheflood/sparks
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project, focusing on creating usage examples and updating the documentation. They added new examples demonstrating how to use the Sparks fonts by implementing HTML and CSS, as evidenced by changes to `examples/index.html` and `styles/font-styles.css`. Further, they updated the default layout by modifying the HTML structure, and added Google Analytics for tracking purposes.
google-fontsfont-sizephoneticsfontswoff
tomgp/books
Dec 2019 - Feb 2023
Books I've read over the last few years
Contributions:115 commits, 169 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
java
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