Tom Wright
Software Engineer at Customer.io
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Wright is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years’ experience building backend systems for SaaS and enterprise products across the UK. He has progressed from PHP development to senior backend roles, most recently at Customer.io, and brings a track record of improving reliability and developer experience at companies like Skedulo and Dojo. Comfortable shipping production services, Tom contributes to open source tooling—adding JSON support and robustness to dasel—demonstrating attention to interoperability and error handling. He blends hands-on coding with pragmatic testing and usability improvements, often tackling tricky edge cases such as invalid index handling. Tom holds a BSc in Computer Science from Canterbury Christ Church University and is adept at translating legacy systems into maintainable, tested services. Colleagues would describe him as steady, detail-oriented, and quietly focused on measurable improvements.
11 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 Canterbury Christ Church UniversityIT, Business, Public Services, IT, Business, Public Services at Cornwallis
English
Stackoverflow
2,851reputation
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86answers
12questions
php
top-5%
phpstorm
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Github Skills (17)
json10
go10
testing9
php9
phpstorm9
data-structures8
data-structure8
error-handling8
cli7
try-catch6
codeigniter6
linux6
oop6
centos6
yum6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TomWright/dasel
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files with a single tool. Supports conversion between formats and can be used as a Go package.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 releases, 29 reviews, 521 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom's primary contribution involves adding support for JSON, incorporating more tests, and including comments. This involved modifying the `node.go` and `node_test.go` files to provide the JSON support including adding support for various node features and error handling. Moreover, the user's contributions include improving the usability of the codebase and resolving issues within the error-handling mechanisms, specifically addressing invalid index issues.
csvgocsv-filesjson-processingparser
TomWright/daselplayground
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
Playground for Dasel.
Contributions:36 releases, 83 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 11 months
typescriptplayground
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