Tom Wadeson
Contract Senior Software Engineer at Disney Streaming
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Wadeson is a contract Senior Software Engineer with 11 years' experience delivering backend, distributed systems and data engineering solutions across media, public sector and retail clients. He specialises in typeful functional programming in Scala (and Haskell for contracts), applying pure FP to ETL, streaming and resilient service design for organisations like Disney Streaming, The Guardian and HMRC. Comfortable operating in small, self-managed teams, he focuses on incremental delivery, observable, reliable pipelines and pragmatic integrations (e.g. GraphQL payment backends and factory fulfilment systems). An active OSS contributor, he’s improved http4s middleware to make server components more modular and flexible. Based in Lincoln, he runs consultancy tewtech Ltd. and brings a rare blend of hands-on engineering, platform stewardship and attention to developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Systems Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Systems Engineering at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (11)
cat10
http10
middleware10
scala10
fs9
http-server9
typer8
top-level8
twitter-bootstrap6
grails6
haskell6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
http4s/http4s
May 2018 - Jun 2018
A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 15 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Tom focused on enhancing the `http4s/http4s` repository by parameterizing middleware components. They refactored `UrlFormLifter` and `Timeout` middleware, enabling greater flexibility and customization. Additionally, the user addressed dependencies by requiring a `Timer[F]` for the `Timeout` middleware. These changes improve the modularity and adaptability of the HTTP library's server-side components.
idiomatichttp-clientscalafs2typelevel
tomwadeson/tomwadeson.github.io
Oct 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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