Tom Spink
Lecturer at BetaSafe Information Services
Almondbank, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Spink is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews with 26 years of experience spanning academic research, teaching, and systems management. He specializes in compilers, operating systems, virtualization and databases, with deep hands-on expertise in LLVM and in building high-performance instruction set simulators generated from high-level descriptions. His career mixes academic roles at Edinburgh with practical systems leadership as an Information Systems Manager, reflecting an ability to translate research into robust, operational software. Based in Almondbank, Scotland, he brings a tinkerer’s curiosity to both electronics and model railways, often designing custom circuits to control his layouts—an unusual hobby that mirrors his hardware-aware approach to software.
26 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at The University of Edinburgh
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Github Skills (57)
javascript9
gensim9
operating-system9
userspace9
relational-algebra9
kernel9
virtio8
vdi8
bootstrap8
hyper-v7
relational7
accessibility7
hypervisor7
php7
compiler7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gensim-project/gensim
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
The GenSim project
Contributions:59 commits, 1 PR, 81 pushes in 4 years 7 months
gensim
avisi-group/captive
Jul 2019 - Oct 2023
The Captive Hypervisor
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
vdihyper-vlibvirtlinuxvirtio
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