Tom Sowerby
Engineering Director at Gear4music Ltd.
York, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Sowerby is an experienced engineering director with 12+ years building and leading web engineering teams, currently heading platform and delivery at Gear4music. He combines deep hands-on expertise in PHP, modern JavaScript (React, Redux, Angular), SQL and NoSQL databases with production-grade architecture using Docker and AWS. Tom has advanced from senior developer to leadership roles, repeatedly improving deployment, testing and API design while mentoring teams and driving agile delivery. He is comfortable across the full stack—object-oriented PHP backends, MVC systems and rich front-end clients—and has a track record of integrating external suppliers and complex services. Based in York and grounded in a Mathematics and Computing degree from Loughborough, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-informed approach to balancing rapid feature delivery with high code quality. Notably, he pairs traditional LAMP strengths with cloud-native practices, helping legacy teams modernise via containerisation and CI.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computing, Computing, Mathematics and Computing, Computing at Loughborough University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (105)
laravel10
documented9
autocomplete9
php9
autosuggest9
github-api8
internationalization8
hateoas8
laravel-framework8
typeahead8
translation8
api-client7
apollo-client7
react-component7
localization7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tomsowerby/starred-package-installer
Jun 2014 - Jun 2015
Starred Package Installer package for Atom.io
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year
atominstallerstarredpackage-installer
tomsowerby/docker-laravel-composer
Apr 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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