Tom Wilkinson
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Thought Machine
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Wilkinson is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in London with 11 years of infrastructure and SRE experience driving scalable, secure platforms for major enterprises. He has led architecture and implementation of storage and database strategies at Thought Machine, enabling unlimited transaction retention and role-based cross-cloud access for banking customers. Previously at Meta, Vodafone and Expedia he delivered IaC transformations, automation for environment lifecycle and monitoring/remediation systems, combining Go, Python and cloud-native tooling. He excels at reducing operational risk—evidenced by a 70% drop in published security fixes after removing third-party dependencies—and at translating product needs into auditable platform features. A former founding instructor for Expedia Code Academy, he also mentors engineers and builds internal tooling to raise team capability. His background in AI (BSc) and long-standing focus on storage and data distribution give him a distinctive systems-first perspective on reliability.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence, BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence at The University of ManchesterA-Levels: Physics Computing Maths, A-Levels: Physics Computing Maths at Scarborough Sixth Form College
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (5)
wilkotom/python_examples
May 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:148 commits, 1 PR, 131 pushes in 3 years 2 months
wilkotom/pleasance
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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