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Education

University of Exeter

Exeter, England
BSc (Hons) Computer Science - predicted high 2:1. Sept 2023 — May 2026
  • Relevant Modules: Security Assessment and Validation, Software Development, Database Theory and Design, Enterprise Computing, High Performance Computing, Data Science at Scale.

Sixth Form

Wales
A-Levels: A*A*A (Maths, Physics, CS); AS-Level: A (Chemistry) Sept 2016 — June 2023

Awards and Achievements

Hack South West Hackathon 2026 - 2nd place

github.com/apex-hinde/HSW-garbo
  • As a 4-person team, developed a business logic platform in Go, integrating custom AI agent skills with SQLite to automate payroll and employee management.

Hack South West CTF 2025 - 2nd place

  • In a 4-person team, tackled challenges in Network Forensics, Linux exploitation, and Python/Bash scripting in a competitive environment.

Projects

Home Server (Kubernetes + GitOps)

github.com/pixel-87/nixos-config
  • Architected and operated a 2-node homelab platform using Linux (NixOS) and Kubernetes (K3s), with MetalLB load balancing, applying DevOps practices around automation and observability.
  • Implemented a GitOps-driven CI/CD workflow with Flux to automate website deployments.
  • Deployed and managed self-hosted services (media, DNS, web hosting, game servers, and automations - n8n) for 5+ users.
  • Used Prometheus/Grafana with Flux Helm Releases, plus alerting and metrics dashboards.

Streak Buttons

github.com/pixel-87/duo-streak-widget
  • Built a Go microservice to generate personal streak buttons/widgets, e.g. Duolingo and GitHub.
  • Managed a cloud-native stack with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) on serverless Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Run, behind a Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN).
  • Used GitHub Actions CI to build Docker container images.

Personal Website

ed-thomas.dev
  • Provisioned an automated failover using AWS CloudFront to reroute traffic to an S3 backup to ensure uptime.
  • Built a full CI/CD pipeline to deploy a container on push to my cluster.

Experience

Open Source Contributor - nixpkgs

Jan 2026 — Present
  • Reviewed community pull requests to ensure code quality.
  • Managed the lifecycle of the TORCS package, including version bumps, security patching, and build validation.
  • Collaborated on a refactor to decouple the binary from 500MB of static assets; avoided CI cache bloat.

Excode Workshop Leader

Sept 2025 — Nov 2025
Google Developer Student Club (GDSC) — excode.co.uk
  • Guided 30+ students through exercises in fundamental Python concepts, programme design, and debugging.

Social Secretary

Sept 2024 — June 2025
University of Exeter Climbing Club
  • Organised weekly socials for 100+ people, coordinating with venues to schedule events and manage logistics.
  • Taught new members climbing fundamentals and safety.

Onboarding Assistant

June 2024 — Sept 2024
Pembrokeshire County Council
  • Streamlined the daily workflow with Python automation for data filtering, reducing manual processing time by 60%.

Certificates

  • GitHub Foundations, GitHub
Oct 2025

Skills

  • Platform Engineering: Linux (NixOS), Kubernetes (K3s), Docker, GitOps (Flux), Infrastructure as Code (IaC - Terraform), Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Nixpkgs Maintainer, n8n.
  • Programming Languages: Python, Go, Java, SQL, Nix.
  • Technologies: AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Git, Django, go-chi, Astro.