My name is Thomas Stirling. I hold a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Leeds (MEng & BSc, First-Class Honours).
My greatest interests lie in AI, ML, data, and application development (Web / Mobile). I’m enthusiastic with all things tech and try to stay updated with the latest industry developments.
Right now, I am working on:
- Developing Bamboo — a language learning mobile app using Go and React Native.
- Building high-throughput, real-time event processing systems at scale using Kotlin and Java at Sky Betting & Gaming — powering core betting features and handling thousands of requests per second.
- Maintaining production-critical infrastructure and participating in an on-call rotation across a large distributed stack (Kafka, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Cassandra).
- Strengthening my skills in machine learning model development (LLMs, neural networks).
- Learning to design and deploy end-to-end ML systems, with a focus on tooling, orchestration, and scalability.
- Staying up to date with breakthroughs in AI/ML research and infrastructure development.
My non-tech related interests include:
- Playing tennis - I try and play as much as I can, but the UK weather does its best to stop me.
- Fashion - I’m particularly interested in Japanese casual and outdoor wear.
- Art and Sketching - Stupid doodles and badly drawn things.
- Gaming - My playtime is something I shouldn’t discuss.