Tom Whiston
Max MSP Programming at Freelance
Much Wenlock, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Whiston is a multidisciplinary software and audio systems engineer with 10+ years delivering DevOps-led platform engineering, agile transformations, and creative Max/MSP-based audio products. He blends hands-on Golang and container-native engineering with strategic leadership—having led platform teams, shaped company culture, and implemented CI/CD and container workflows across cloud and on-prem environments. An advocate for humane, transparent workplaces, he uses Wardley mapping and the Westrum/Competing Values frameworks to reduce grind and accelerate innovation. Tom contributes to open-source DevOps tooling (notably improving build and deployment flows in semaphoreui/semaphore) and applies sonic-art practice to B2B automotive and live-performance systems. He holds advanced training in sonic arts and is completing doctoral research in music, a background that informs his unusually creative approach to technical problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ma, Sonic Arts, Masters, Ma, Sonic Arts, Masters at Middlesex UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Sound Arts & Design, 1st, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sound Arts & Design, 1st at University of the Arts LondonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music at Goldsmiths, University of London
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Github Skills (13)
automation10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
docker10
devops10
dockers10
cicd10
ansible10
terraform9
bash9
go9
terraformer9
opentofu8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
semaphoreui/semaphore
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Modern UI and powerful API for Ansible, Terraform, OpenTofu, PowerShell and other DevOps tools.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 99 commits, 82 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the project. They addressed an issue with Ansible input, changed the configuration file handling in the Docker startup script, and added an environment key to allow passing execution-level arguments. They also worked on temporary directory creation and permissions, updated bindata, and switched the build process to use tasks. These changes demonstrate a strong focus on improving the project's infrastructure and build pipelines.
golangdevopsansiblejavascriptmodern-ui
twhiston/qmk_firmware
Dec 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:26 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 7 years 3 months
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
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