Thomas Kiley

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ABOUT ME

Software engineer with 10 years industry experience

Hi, I'm a software engineer whose worked with science companies, tech startup and the games industry, including EA and shipping Strike Suit Zero.

I have taught scientists software development best practises, and I am experienced at reviewing other peoples code. I have led technical teams, mentoring junior developers to write their best code.

I'm a fast to pick up new code, with experience in a wide range of domains. I can bring this experience to help you with your coding problems.

London (+01:00)

Joined May 2020

EXPERTISE

C++

6 years experience

Writing high quality, well tested, modern C++. Extensive use of the STL (including <algorithm>). Also experience of using it in Unreal En...

Writing high quality, well tested, modern C++. Extensive use of the STL (including <algorithm>). Also experience of using it in Unreal Engine. See my employment experience at Diffblue and others for more details.

Game

4 years experience

Using in house engines, as well as Unreal Engine and Unity. Experience doing gameplay, automation and tools. See job listings at Born Rea...

Using in house engines, as well as Unreal Engine and Unity. Experience doing gameplay, automation and tools. See job listings at Born Ready Games, In Mind Games, as well as my personal projects.

Unity Unreal Engine 4 C#

Unity Unreal Engine 4 C#C++

3 years experience | 1 endorsement

Developing tools (at doublesix, and for my university project, kAI) and games in Unity.

Git

7 years experience

Used as my primary source control for my work at Diffblue. Familiar with using "Git Flow". I am well practiced in making and reviewing pu...

Used as my primary source control for my work at Diffblue. Familiar with using "Git Flow". I am well practiced in making and reviewing pull requests on Github, I have used advanced git features such as "rebase", and undoing mistakes through the "reflog".

GitHub

WPF

1 year experience

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

climate-dashboard

A website with the aim of seeing the state of progress towards tackling climate change.

JavaScript

Automata-Cwk

Shell

Stack Overflow

2547 Reputation

EMPLOYMENTS

Software Consultant

Tokamak Energy

2022-06-01-2022-09-01

Provided a bespoke version of the Software Engineering Best Practises for Busy Experts course. Additional consulting on key challenges...

Provided a bespoke version of the Software Engineering Best Practises for Busy Experts course. Additional consulting on key challenges the company faced in implementing their CI.

Python

Unit Testing

GitLab

Python

Unit Testing

GitLab

GitLab CI/CD

Software Engineer

2021-09-01-2022-09-01

Working on the in-house tooling with the Physics team to improve user experience.

C++

WPF

C++

WPF

Software Engineer

Ultromics

2020-09-01-2021-06-01

I was responsible for developing a C# Windows application for use in medical research. The application is a C# / WPF application using...

I was responsible for developing a C# Windows application for use in medical research. The application is a C# / WPF application using Entity Framework Core for the database layer.

WPF

MVVM

WPF

MVVM

Entity Framework Core

PROJECTS

Strike Suit ZeroView Project

Born Ready Games

2013

I was involved in the development of Strike Suit Zero - a game in which you control a transforming space ship.

C++

The Last VoyageView Project

2018

A Unity game made as part of the Global Game Jam. You have to pilot the last signal back from Voyager, before it shuts down,