Tom Whale
CTO & Co-founder at PortF
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Whale is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 13 years of experience building product-led engineering teams and scalable web platforms. As CTO of PortF he’s unifying commercial, ESG, and impact analytics to automate investing decisions and reporting for investors and portfolio companies. He previously led engineering at Reach plc and co-founded Bevvi, demonstrating a mix of newsroom-scale product delivery and startup iteration. Hands-on across the stack, Tom has contributed backend improvements to notable community projects like Spectrum, focusing on data consistency and robust queue processing. Based in London, he blends startup grit with enterprise delivery, often turning messy data integrations into reliable, production-ready systems. Expect a pragmatic CTO who still dives into code to solve critical backend and data model challenges.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of BirminghamJohn Hampden Grammar School
Github Skills (7)
flowtype10
flow-typed10
nodejs10
graphql8
react8
wpgraphql8
wordpress-graphql8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
withspectrum/spectrum
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Simple, powerful online communities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on backend development within the `spectrum` repository, which involves online community functionality. Their contributions centered around modifying and refactoring code related to the `usersThreads` model and related queue processing. The user's changes involved updating data types, converting values to Date objects, and implementing flow type fixes to improve the stability and reliability of the backend processes. These adjustments appear aimed at refining the handling of user thread interactions and ensuring data consistency.
reactrethinkdbjavascriptstyled-componentscommunities
tomwhale/highland-itemstore-generator
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 6 months
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