Thomas Buck
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ABOUT ME
Squashing Bugs and Coding Fast Since 1998.
Squashing Bugs and Coding Fast Since 1998.
Tom started with web development in 1998, and since then has worked in the areas of desktop apps, SMS, mobile phone apps, more web development, investigative IT and IP protection products, and data warehousing.
Motivated and with an eye for detail, Tom has made a name for himself as a highly talented problem solver who will always find a solution and deliver on time.
English
London (+00:00)
Joined May 2015
EXPERTISE
22 years experience
Starting right around the time the internet started to take off, my MySQL knowledge has grown from basic websites, through to complex CMS...
Starting right around the time the internet started to take off, my MySQL knowledge has grown from basic websites, through to complex CMS's, through to big data and making billions of rows of data performant.
22 years experience
Since the early days of the internet I have built both simple and very complex web applications using PHP, and know how to quickly find f...
Since the early days of the internet I have built both simple and very complex web applications using PHP, and know how to quickly find flaws and issues in existing codebases.
After all this time, I'm also thoroughly versed into how to make PHP scalable, and how best to develop maintainable systems for the future.
22 years experience
Working with internet technologies since 1997, I have a deep understanding of not only the technologies themselves, but what is going on ...
Working with internet technologies since 1997, I have a deep understanding of not only the technologies themselves, but what is going on behind the scenes.
22 years experience
Starting with RedHat back in '97, and working through SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS, I am a highly competent Linux server admin.
(an...
Starting with RedHat back in '97, and working through SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS, I am a highly competent Linux server admin.
(and if you need someone to help out with the old SCO server sitting miserably in the corner of the room, I'm not shy of that either!).
18 years experience
Need help optimising your SQL queries, or just working out what the heck's going wrong? Look no further :-)
Need help optimising your SQL queries, or just working out what the heck's going wrong? Look no further :-)
18 years experience
A solid background in database administration, ranging from MySQL basics through to solid big data DB2 installs and enterprise extra-tran...
A solid background in database administration, ranging from MySQL basics through to solid big data DB2 installs and enterprise extra-transform-load (ETL) fun with Ab Initio, there's little that I can't help out with.
5 years experience
Creating custom layers with mbtiles and Tippecanoe, or highly interactive maps, I can take geospatial data - polygons, points, 3d extrusi...
Creating custom layers with mbtiles and Tippecanoe, or highly interactive maps, I can take geospatial data - polygons, points, 3d extrusions - and map them for you.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(1 reviews)
T Scott
May 2015
Thomas was extremely helpful in troubleshooting strange issues with MRJob, Hadoop, Amazon EMR, and Common Crawl. He made several code recommendations and saved me hours of frustration. Highly recommended!
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