Summary
Tristan Thompson is a pragmatic engineering leader and solutions architect with over a decade of hands-on .NET experience, now serving as Head of Development from Bristol. He has led complex backend integrations and large CMS migrations for high-profile clients like Dyson, Red Bull, Honda and Sainsbury’s, often modernising legacy ASP.NET systems into .NET Core and cloud-based architectures. Equally comfortable drafting architecture and writing SQL migration scripts, Tristan combines deep expertise in Umbraco, Kentico and Sitecore with practical DevOps skills across Azure and AWS, CI/CD and containerisation. He has a strong track record of reducing technical debt through targeted refactors, bespoke NuGet tooling and automated test coverage, and has repeatedly delivered multilingual and personalised web platforms at scale. As a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer who still writes migration scripts and novel back-end helpers himself, he blends strategic leadership with continued hands-on delivery.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Software Engineering, BSc (Hons) Software Engineering at University of the West of England