Tom Pettit
Backend Engineer at Spotify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Pettit is a Backend Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable infrastructure and data-driven systems across high-impact platforms at Amazon and Spotify. He combines strong academic foundations from an MEng in Computer Science (Durham) with hands-on expertise in Java, Python, TypeScript, big-data pipelines, and CI/CD automation to accelerate releases and improve reliability. At Amazon he reduced release cycles and test burdens through custom GenAI tooling, led BI initiatives that saved millions and hundreds of FTE hours, and built ML and data pipelines processing hundreds of millions of rows. Known for pragmatic fault-tolerant designs and prompt-engineering sub-agents in production, he thrives where data, automation and developer experience intersect. Based in London, he brings a track record of shipping measurable operational improvements and a knack for turning manual workflows into automated, high-coverage systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels: Further Maths (A*) Maths (A*) Physics (A*) Economics (A*), A-Levels: Further Maths (A*) Maths (A*) Physics (A*) Economics (A*) at Abingdon SchoolMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Durham University
Github Skills (13)
discord-bot10
discord9
discord-py9
api8
python7
reddit7
praw7
nextcord7
javascript5
to-do4
expressjs4
nodejs2
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tom-pettit/GeneralRedditBot
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
This is the code for my Reddit Bot Class
Contributions:2 releases, 81 commits, 1 PR in 9 days
prawjavascriptbotredditreddit-bot
tom-pettit/CreatingARedditBotGuide
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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