Tom Tong
Freelance Software Engineer at Binary Neon Ltd
Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Tong is a freelance software engineer and former engineering leader with 10+ years’ experience delivering web and cloud systems across FinTech, EdTech, MedComms, ecommerce and specialist media. He brings deep PHP/MVC expertise—particularly Laravel—alongside front-end skills (HTML5, CSS3, Angular, Vue) and hands-on DevOps experience building CI/TDD pipelines, AWS services and serverless platforms. Tom has led and grown teams of up to 30 engineers, introduced Agile and deployment best practices, and translated technical work into board-level reporting and delivery metrics. Comfortable moving between code and operational strategy, he’s equally at home shipping microservices or improving developer workflows. Based in Macclesfield, UK, he combines long-term agency founding experience with recent product- and platform-focused leadership roles, offering a pragmatic, delivery-first approach that still values automation and testability.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE, GCSE at King's School MacclesfieldAdvanced GNVQ Art and Design, Advanced GNVQ Art and Design at Macclesfield College
Github Skills (17)
csv9
exports8
imports8
laravel-package8
laravel7
php7
phpoffice6
excel6
laravel-nova6
google-recaptcha4
phpexcel4
recaptcha4
repeater3
vue-recaptcha1
vue-component1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tongtastic/lumen-blog
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 20 pushes in 5 days
tongtastic/fire-control
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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