Tom W
Senior DevOps Engineer at Vanga
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTom W is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Sydney with 10 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and leading development teams. He blends hands-on DevOps at Spaceship with full-stack engineering skills—working on Vue.js, Golang, Kubernetes and CockroachDB at Vanga—bringing practical experience in AWS and Google Cloud. Previously a Development Manager and Lead Developer at FiNAO, he has a strong background in PHP and WordPress dating back to earlier web roles, giving him a rare mix of legacy web and modern cloud expertise. Trained in Architecting on AWS and GCP fundamentals, he’s comfortable owning reliability, scalability and delivery across the stack while translating business needs into engineered solutions. An unspoken strength is his continuity across roles, moving from web development into leadership and back into hands-on platform engineering, which helps him bridge strategy and execution.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technologies, Information Technology, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technologies, Information Technology at University of Western SydneyGoogle Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure, Cloud Technologies, Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure, Cloud Technologies at CourseraArchitecting on AWS, Cloud Architecture, Architecting on AWS, Cloud Architecture at Bespoke TrainingHSC, HSC at St. Andrews Cathedral School
Stackoverflow
36reputation
740reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (32)
php8
laravel8
event-sourcing7
latency7
grpc6
golang6
role-based6
go6
storage6
cloudevents6
docker-image6
low-latency6
event-driven5
bash5
broadcasting5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tcfw/vpc
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 43 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
tcfw/qpack
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
a (minimal) QPACK implementation in Go
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
golangqpack
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.