Tom Purkaple
Senior Software Engineer at Some Big Bank Type Place
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Purkaple is a Senior Software Engineer based in Kansas City with over 15 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing web applications and e-commerce systems. A certified Java programmer, he specializes in secure, scalable full-stack Java development—Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Tomcat—backed by extensive frontend work using JSP, jQuery, Bootstrap and data visualization with Highcharts/Amcharts. He has led teams and delivered multi-store e-commerce and LMS platforms, integrating SSO, SCORM support, and AWS services while working in Agile environments. At a large bank and prior employers he has driven architecture and operational improvements using CI/CD and observability tools like Jenkins, NewRelic and Logentries. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Tom blends legacy modernization experience with a curiosity for newer stacks such as Angular and React, positioning him to bridge enterprise stability with forward-looking UI migrations.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Hannibal-Lagrange College
Github Skills (2)
treasury10
frontend8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
fedspendingtransparency/fiscal-data
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Frontend of FiscalData.Treasury.gov
Contributions:20 releases, 186 reviews, 207 commits in 9 months
govfiscaldatafrontendtreasury
tompurkaple/hello-world
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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