Tom Spencer
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Spencer is a staff engineer based in Bristol with 14 years’ experience building web and mobile apps, now working on Shopify’s Retail POS in React Native. He has a strong full-stack background from founding and leading teams to shipping production mobile and SaaS products using React, React Native, TypeScript, Node.js and GraphQL. As Technical Director and former Head of Mobile Web, he blends hands-on implementation with people and process leadership, introducing agile practices and testing discipline. An active contributor to Node.js tooling, he’s improved job scheduling and QA in the popular agenda project, adding reliability around recurring jobs and cancellation. He’s comfortable across the stack—from low-level bug fixes and test suites to designing merchant-facing POS features—and often prefers pragmatic, well-tested solutions over architectural novelty.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Heaton Manor1st class Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1st class Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
testing10
mongodb-database10
scheduler10
angularjs10
job-application10
nodejs10
mongodb10
job-scheduling10
mongoose9
cron9
youtube9
concatenation9
passportjs9
automation9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
agenda/agenda
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving the testing framework and addressing bugs within the agenda project. Their contributions include adding new test cases to reproduce and resolve errors, specifically concerning job saving and removal. The user also corrected errors related to job scheduling and data handling and added new functionality with the agenda.cancel function. Additionally, the user implemented functionality to update and schedule recurring jobs, alongside refactoring and optimization efforts.
schedulerjobcronschedulerunner
fiznool/backbone.basicauth
Nov 2012 - Jun 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 8 months
authenticationbasic-authenticationbackbone
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