Tom Whitmore
Principal Engineer at Rhapsody
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolTom Whitmore is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of professional experience delivering architecture, modernization and performance improvements for large Java-based systems across finance, healthcare and defense. He has led technical architecture at scale—driving multi-tenancy, transaction datamodel performance, TDD adoption and security hardening—while helping a listed company triple revenues. Comfortable both as a hands-on Java/persistence engineer and a strategic architect, Tom favors "lean design" that minimizes complexity and cost while enabling extensibility. He currently shapes product innovation in healthcare integration across teams in New Zealand and the US, and his background includes building high‑volume realtime control systems and commercial persistence products. An understated strength is his track record of recovering and commercializing troubled projects, turning legacy systems into maintainable, high‑performing products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
C Programming & Advanced C, C Programming & Advanced C at AUT UniversityScience & Computer Science, A to A+, Science & Computer Science, A to A+ at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (108)
windows-explorer10
deploying10
java10
intellij10
gitextensions10
git-client10
javascript9
sql9
lambda9
math-library9
jpa9
authentication9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
twhitmorenz/linearblockalloc
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:13 releases, 47 commits, 4 PRs in 22 days
hibernatelinearallocatorportablejava
developertrainingwithxebia/github-games-twhitmorenz
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
A fun way to learn about git troubleshooting.
Contributions:5 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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