Tom Walford
Staff Software Engineer at Relay Technologies
Welwyn Hatfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Walford is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-backed systems using Java, Scala, C++, Rust and TypeScript across companies like Amazon and Ocado. He blends strong technical leadership—architecting warehouse and financial systems, reworking native streaming APIs, and driving cloud migration strategies—with excellent client-facing communication and cross-team collaboration. A math graduate from Warwick, Tom has repeatedly moved between hands-on engineering and strategic architecture roles, solving performance, observability and SOX-compliance challenges. He started as a self-taught developer and maintains a technical blog, reflecting a continuous appetite for learning and practical knowledge sharing. Notably, his work spans embedded device firmware through to cloud platforms, giving him end-to-end insight that helps align engineering decisions with business and audit requirements.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
King Edward's SchoolBachelor of Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Mathematics at University of Warwick
Github Skills (41)
actor-framework10
concurrent10
jvm10
reactive10
http10
distributed-systems10
websocket10
akka10
java10
akka-http10
http-server10
http-client10
akka-streams10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tom-walford/sbt-snyk
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
A thin wrapper for the snyk CLI that better supports multi-project sbt builds
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 8 months
multi-projectbuildssbt-multi-projectthinscala
tom-walford/akka-http
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
scalahttp-serverstreamingakka
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