Tom Townsend
Staff Engineer at Goji
Horsham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Townsend is a Staff Engineer with 12 years' experience leading full-stack and infrastructure engineering in financial services, currently shaping platform and delivery at Goji. He has progressed from graduate and middleware roles to engineering team lead and now staff-level responsibilities, with deep hands-on expertise in Java, Ember, AWS, Terraform and Nomad. Tom pairs systems thinking with practical delivery experience—rebuilding legacy C# scientific tools early in his career and later driving CI/CD and automation to speed product launch and onboarding flows. Based in Horsham, England, he excels at bridging frontend, backend and infrastructure work while mentoring teams to adopt reliable, scalable practices. A pragmatic problem-solver, he brings both solo developer grit and leadership experience from high-compliance fintech environments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
English
Github Skills (21)
xml6
html-template6
rendering5
middleware5
json4
testing4
golang4
javascript3
raspbian3
typescript3
pi2
digital-signage2
scroll2
docker2
raspberry-pi2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RadioactiveMouse/slacker
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year
golangslackgolang-clientslack-com
RadioactiveMouse/broadband-monitor-pi
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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