Thom Leggett
Vice President of Engineering @Book Creator From Kami
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WORK HISTORY
Vice President of Engineering @Book Creator From Kami
Bristol, GB
I lead the Book Creator engineering team at Kami.Architecture & Scale: Acted as hands-on architectural lead, defining and evolving the end-to-end cloud infrastructure (TypeScript / Google Cloud) to transform system reliability from approximately 90% to a resilient uptime.Commercial Engineering: Architected scalable cloud systems. Established high-velocity CI/CD pipelines, shipping thousands of product features. Optimised cloud infrastructure to keep operational costs linear during 10x user growth.Security & Compliance: Led the hands-on technical implementation of enterprise-grade security controls, securing data for tens of millions of users and successfully driving the third-party audits for our SOC 2, GDPR, and COPPA compliance.AI & Execution: Integrated AI-assisted development tools into our engineering workflows to dramatically accelerate delivery velocity, operating as a technical player-coach to retain 100% of the founding engineering team.
EDUCATION
Wellington School, Somerset
A-Level: Mathematics (A), Further Mathematics (A), Physics (A), Geography(A).
Imperial College London
Software Engineering
ABOUT THOM LEGGETT
With over 18 years of experience in commercial software development, I currently serve as Vice President of Engineering at Kami, leading the engineering team behind Book Creator. My focus lies in SaaS development, regulatory compliance, and delivering secure, high-quality software for educators worldwide.Dedicated to engineering excellence, my team and I have enhanced product architecture, maintained five-nines uptime, and supported substantial growth in usage and revenue. Our mission is to empower educators with reliable, scalable, and innovative tools while ensuring data security and operational efficiency at every step.
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