About

Thom started web development with a book on HTML and CSS from a scholastic bookfair when he was 11. At 14, he started learning ActionScript, the JS-like language behind Macromedia (later Adobe) Flash. From 18, he was developing blogging websites in PHP built on WordPress and occasionally Joomla. Then in an effort to broaden his development skills and make a killer web app, from 21 he started writing Ruby, working on an application in Ruby on Rails called Quotable. He has been a Rails developer ever since.

Career

2008-2011

University of Cumbria

Studied Film & Television Production at the University of Cumbria

2011-2012

Aban Technology

Web Administrator for Aban Technology in Salford

2012

View From Here

Web Developer for View From Here Ltd. in Cumbria

2012-2013

Rocket Dog Creative

Ruby on Rails Developer for Rocket Dog Creative in Durham

2013-2016

Freelance

Rails, PHP, WordPress and other web development as a self-employed freelancer

2016-2018

FlexMR

Ruby on Rails Developer for a market research platform

2018-2019

Imfuna

Ruby on Rails and mobile application developer for property inspection software

2019-Present

Propheris

Ruby on Rails Developer for Propheris, building and maintaining health software for NHS England

Skills

Ruby

Rails

JavaScript

Vue

Nuxt

HTML

CSS

Tailwind CSS

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

Neo4j

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About

Thom is a freelance and open source software developer with specialities in the weird, niche worlds of Rails and Nuxt.

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Contact

Email: thom@thombruce.com

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