Tom Spring

Full Stack Engineer - UK
tomspring5000@gmail.com / 07758 600167
github.com/tspring5000
linkedin.com/in/tom-spring5000/

I am a highly motivated engineer with a strong proven track record of managing large corporate platforms and leading internal product development programs. I enjoy building relationships with external clients and internal teams, and have considerable experience of developing my and others capabilities.

💾 Skills

Django / Python / Vue / HTMX / REST / Git

Go / Rust / Typescript / Swift / Linux / WebSockets

💼 Experience

Carpenter (Jan 2025 - Present)

• Initially part-time alongside my contracting work, I'm now working full time at a local Joinery
• Has been really interesting working on and learning an entirely different set of skills than what I usually do

Full Stack Engineer (Contractor) @ Iterum (Jun 2025 - Apr 2026)

• Django, Python, HTMX, Linux, Heroku, Celery, Postgres, Paramiko
• Startup, building an appliance management platform for the residental sector
• Working in a small team, in a quickly changing environment, and working across disciplines
• Leading development of greenfield projects end to end, for example I led a redesign of our problem reporting model, allowing problems to evolve over time without losing data on how and why they've changed (eg. a repair becoming a replacement)
• Advising on both technical and non-technical implementations for other team members. For example, when a client had an issue with the number of emails we were sending out, I suggested we combine multiple emails into a single regular "digest" email.
• Building third party implementations under difficult constraints with creative solutions

Career Break (Jan 2023 - Dec 2024)

• Took a year out to travel in South East Asia, covering Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia
• Also used the time learning new technologies; Svelte, React, Flutter, Zig and Rust to name a few and launched an iOS app, Nonatone

Full Stack Engineer @ The Access Group (Apr 2019 - Dec 2022)

• Django, Python, Vue, DRF, Git, Linux, AWS
• Responsible for managing recruitment candidate screening platform for over 200 corporate clients
• Leading product enhancement projects, for example implementation of a medical check feature allowing us to process medically trained candidates at the critical time of COVID19
• Experience consuming and building API's, for example, I led an ambitious rewrite of the public API with the goal of reaching feature parity with the front-end and improving documentation coverage
• Accountable for management of sensitive data, for example, executed a migration of client billing information to a new system, automating the previously intensive work of keeping up with bespoke contracts
• Onboarding new starters to the development team of all experience levels and mentoring junior/mid-level engineers.

Data Analyst @ Corporate Software Services, Inc (Sep 2017 - Mar 2019)

• SQL, Python, Elasticsearch, Splunk, PowerBI, Selenium
• Managed data, reporting and web testing for external clients
• Developed data pipelines using Python and various API's

📌 On the Side

Game Development: Game dev has been a side project for me since I started learning programming, and I've been working on a large side project for a few years now. My tech stack consists of Godot and Aseprite right now, but in the past I've used everything from Unity to Blender to PICO-8 and even a few frameworks such as Bevy (Rust). As I work solo most of the time, I'm always having to pick up new skills aside from programming, including art and music as well as project management

Music: Branching off from a need for game dev to its own hobby entirely, I also make music as a side project. Right now I'm trying out 'live coding' with Strudel