Tom Wilshere
Chief Technology Officer at Florence
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Wilshere is a CTO with 14 years of experience building and scaling Ruby on Rails applications, currently leading product and engineering at Florence to rethink technology in social care. He combines hands-on development pedigree—from co-founding a collaborative app to senior engineering roles at Decoded and Amazon—with strategic leadership that drives secure, data-informed products. A seasoned public speaker and workshop leader on cybersecurity, lean startup and hackathons, he brings evangelism and practical training to clients including FTSE100 organisations. Outside work he volunteers as an Emergency Ambulance Crew member for St John Ambulance, an experience that informs his pragmatic, user-centered approach to building reliable systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Hills Road Sixth Form CollegeMEng Computing, MEng Computing at Imperial College LondonThe Perse School, Cambridge
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Github Skills (53)
authentication8
bitly6
html6
ruby-on-rails6
backbonejs6
twilio6
css6
mms6
rails6
ssid6
twitter-bootstrap6
javascript6
coffeescript6
mysql6
sdk5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tomwilshere/gitscroll
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:187 commits in 8 months
team-florence/semantic-ui-theme-builder
Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
A theme builder for Semantic UI components
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 1 month
semanticcssbuilderui-componentssemantic-ui
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