>Tom Nagle

Experience

1. UPowr

   Sydney, NSW

   Senior Software Engineer

   Feb 2024 - Present

   • Owned and delivered products and features using Node.js, TypeScript, React, React Native and Go
   • Designed core backend components: authentication, SDKs, ETL, rules engines and third-party integrations
   • Identified and implemented a new approach to customer calls and SMS, saving about $40k a year in Twilio costs
   • Optimised PostgreSQL for performance and concurrent processing
   • Built LLM-powered product matching and an MCP server so AI agents can query live platform data
   • Worked with product and design to shape requirements and led technical discussions, ADRs and prototypes
   • Projects:
   • Adapting CI test suites to rapid change
   • Product centralisation
   • Bill of Materials Automator
   • Customer Experience Portal
   • Plugin authentication

2. Localz (Descartes)

   Melbourne, VIC

   Senior Software Engineer

   Sep 2019 - Feb 2024

   • Led the design and delivery of multiple customer-facing applications using Node.js, TypeScript, React and GraphQL
   • Delivered a customer feedback platform handling over one million submissions a year
   • Rebuilt analytics pipelines using Kafka, Kinesis Firehose, dbt and Snowflake, reducing dashboard queries from minutes to seconds
   • Designed and delivered authentication, a URL shortener and a configuration platform
   • Designed and implemented end-to-end testing strategies
   • Adopted ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot into my daily workflow
   • Projects:
   • Accounts API
   • Event Analytics Pipeline
   • Feedback platform
   • URL shortener

3. Procurement Leaders

   London, United Kingdom

   Full-Stack Developer to Development Lead

   Feb 2016 - Jun 2019

   • Led the development team and owned technical decisions across customer-facing products
   • Worked with senior leadership to shape digital products
   • Coached engineers through code reviews and technical design discussions
   • Managed CI/CD pipelines and production deployments on Linux and Nginx
   • Projects:
   • Event hub

4. HoundHouse

   Sunshine Coast, QLD

   Ecommerce Manager

   May 2015 - Nov 2015

   • Designed, developed and deployed e-commerce websites selling premium pet products worldwide
   • Configured LAMP stack servers, reducing hosting costs and improving site performance
   • Projects:
   • Rate my rat

5. AD Marketing

   Sunshine Coast, QLD

   Web Developer

   Apr 2015 - Nov 2015

   • Worked with marketers and developers to build websites and online marketing strategies for clients

6. M&D Employment

   Sunshine Coast, QLD

   Web Developer & SEO

   Jun 2013 - Nov 2015

   • Designed and developed e-commerce websites with Drupal Commerce and WooCommerce in a small team
   • Configured AWS instances and deployed sites on LAMP stack servers
   • Projects:
   • E-commerce rebuild

7. Posty

   Founder / Software engineer

   Mar 2026 - Present

   • Building a social planning and scheduling product for small businesses and marketing agencies using TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL and Cloudflare Workers
   • Built publishing integrations for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky and Discord
   • Built OAuth connections, token refresh, rate-limit handling and retries for each platform API
   • Built an event-driven action feed that surfaces onboarding tasks, content approvals and publishing deadlines
   • Projects:
   • Event-Driven Action Feed
   • Migrating from D1 to PlanetScale PostgreSQL

Personal

    export const life = {
    location: "Sunshine Coast, QLD",
    family: ["husband", "father of 2"],
    enjoys: ["traveling", "building side projects", "gym"],
    sundays: "beach mornings with the family",
    };