Tom Waddington
Principal Software Engineer at Real Links
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Waddington is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with two decades of experience building and scaling web platforms and engineering teams across sectors from higher education to healthcare and gaming. He combines hands-on architecture and platform delivery with people leadership, having recruited and led teams of up to nine engineers and UX specialists and line-managed engineers in production-critical projects. His background spans full-stack and backend systems—from multi-currency e‑commerce and mobile app backends to bespoke CRMs and integrations with third‑party labs—demonstrating a knack for simplifying complex systems and eliminating technical debt. Notable wins include consolidating a university’s web estate onto a single platform and automating admissions clearing workflows for a 300-person operation, and leading a COVID-19 testing platform with integrated lab pipelines. Known by colleagues as empathetic and driven (“I’m nothing but heart” on GitHub), he blends pragmatic delivery with a focus on team wellbeing and operational reliability.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computing, Bachelor's Degree Computing at Sheffield Hallam University
English
Github Skills (2)
react1
nodejs1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
waddie/advent-of-code
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
jinaltandel/developer-assessment
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 15 days
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