Tom Scott-malden
Senior Programmer And Head Of Technology at Skywire Studios
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Scott-malden is a Senior Programmer and Head of Technology with 11 years of experience building and operating PHP-driven web platforms from the server up, specialising in Magento/Magento 2, MySQL, NGINX/Apache and front-end tooling like Angular, LESS/SASS and modern build systems. Based in Westminster, he runs technology and hosting at Skywire Studios where he translates client requirements into production-ready sites, architects hosting environments, and trains teams to maintain high coding standards. He contributes to notable open-source deployment tooling—enhancing the popular deployer project with Magento 2-specific features, safer locking, and concurrent static-content jobs—highlighting a practical focus on robust, repeatable deployments. Comfortable across back-end, DevOps and front-end stacks, Tom pairs hands-on implementation with process-driven improvements that reduce risk and speed delivery.
11 years of coding experience
BSc (Hons), Internet Technology, BSc (Hons), Internet Technology at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (10)
tooling10
php10
provisioning10
deploying10
toolz10
devops10
toolbox10
magento10
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
deployphp/deployer
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
The PHP deployment tool with support for popular frameworks out of the box
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 2 commits, 8 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tom has contributed to the core functionality of the `deployer` tool. They implemented features for managing Magento 2 deployments, including configurable themes, concurrent jobs for static content deployment, and updating cache prefixes. The user also addressed locking mechanisms to improve deployment safety and modified the application of the `var-exporter`. These contributions indicate a focus on improving the tool's capabilities for PHP-based deployments and deployment processes.
continuous-deploymentboxdeploymentdeployphp
valguss/knpuniversity-symfony1
Jun 2017 - Feb 2020
Joyful Development with Symfony 3
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundlesymfony
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