Tom W
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Government Digital Service
Arun, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom W is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Linux-first production environments, now working at the UK Government Digital Service. He combines deep Linux and Puppet expertise with a strong troubleshooting mindset honed across hosting (Memset), WebOps, and support roles, moving from 1st-line support to senior SRE responsibilities. Tom contributes to open-source tooling for DNS management, adding a Memset provider and tests to the popular lexicon project, showing practical backend Python skills beyond traditional sysadmin work. With LPIC-1 and a DipHE in Computer Science (Games) from the University of Brighton, he brings both formal grounding and pragmatic operations experience to deliver resilient infrastructure at scale.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
DipHE Computer Science (Games), DipHE Computer Science (Games) at University of Brighton
Github Skills (6)
api10
dns10
python10
apidoc10
http-request9
testing8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
AnalogJ/lexicon
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 6 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the implementation of a new DNS provider integration for Memset within the `lexicon` project. Their work involved writing Python code to interact with the Memset DNS API, including authentication, record creation, updating, and deletion. Further contributions included tests for the new provider. Refactoring and minor fixes to the code were also made.
pypiyandexconstellixgandilexicon
whi-tw/hugo-startpage-theme
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Hugo start page theme, link listing built from yaml
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 months
hugolinkpage-themehugo-themelisting
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