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thompsy/README.md

Hi, I'm Andrew 👋

Staff Software Engineer in Edinburgh, building large-scale distributed systems and data platforms — mostly in Go and Python on AWS.

Currently a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at Addepar, working on financial data platforms. Previously at CrowdStrike, SecureWorks and Amazon. Before industry I did a PhD on self-organisation in LTE networks using evolutionary algorithms.

🌐 downthewire.co.uk · 💼 LinkedIn

Selected projects

Project What it is
go-linux-worker A Go service that runs arbitrary Linux commands, isolated with namespaces and cgroups — built to understand containers from the ground up.
mini-llm-platform A small self-hosted LLM platform (FastAPI, Ollama, RAG, tracing, eval) for hands-on LLM learning.
ebpf-summit-2021-ctf eBPF Capture-the-Flag challenges I participated in as part of the eBPF Summit 2021.
planck-ez-firmware Cloud-built QMK firmware (Colemak-DH, home-row mods) for my ZSA Planck keyboard, compiled in GitHub Actions.
dotfiles Configuration dotfiles for Emacs, Fish, Jujutsu and other tools that I use regularly.

PhD Projects

These projects are pretty old now, but represent my early research work.

Project What it is
jLTE-Simulator The physical-layer LTE network simulator I build for my PhD (thesis).
jLTE-EvolutionaryAlgorithm An evolutionary algorithm which uses the jLTE-Simulator as a fitness function.
jLTE-Experiments The experiment framework I developed to run large scale experiments using the jLTE-Simulator.

Tech I work with Professionally

Go · Python · AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · Kafka · PostgreSQL · gRPC · Docker

Tech I'm experimenting with

LLMs · Rust · eBPF · Jujutsu

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  1. dotfiles dotfiles Public

    Dotfiles for Emacs, Fish, Jujutsu and others

    Makefile

  2. mini-llm-platform mini-llm-platform Public

    Mini LLM platform for learning!

    Python

  3. planck-ez-firmware planck-ez-firmware Public

    Cloud-built QMK firmware for the Planck EZ Glow — a tweaked Miryoku layout (Colemak-DH, home-row mods), compiled in GitHub Actions with one-step flashing.

    C 1

  4. go-linux-worker go-linux-worker Public

    A Go service which runs arbitrary Linux commands submitted by clients. Isolation is provided using namespaces and cgroups.

    Go 1

  5. ebpf-summit-2021-ctf ebpf-summit-2021-ctf Public

    A series of eBPF Capture the Flag challenges published as part of the eBPF Summit 2021

    C 1 1

  6. jLTE-Simulator jLTE-Simulator Public

    A physical layer LTE network simulator.

    Java 2 4