Thomas Mcdermott Email and Phone Number

•‭ For examples of my work see tgmcdermott.com, or my most recent client exetersciencecentre.org.• Creation of websites and software for clients, from design to full stack development and deployment.• Single-page applications made with Typescript, React and Next.js. Cloud hosted on my own server or using serverless architecture such as Firebase or Vercel.• Traditional LAMP/LEMP stacks running a CMS such as WordPress, with my own custom templates and plugins.• AI apps leveraging custom neural networks or LLMs.

• Co-founder of the quantum cryptography start-up ‭levelQuantum, where I acted as chief scientific officer.‬• Designed and simulated novel protocols that exploit the ‭peculiarities of quantum physics to keep data secure.

• Research in quantum computing and machine learning.‬•‭ Experience with classical and quantum cryptography‬ ‭and cybersecurity.‬• Developed python codebases for modeling physics‬ ‭experiments and performing machine learning.‬• Utilized cloud computing via Google cloud and Amazon‬ web services (AWS).‬• ‭Supervised Master's and PhD students.‬• Disseminated my research through scientific‬ publications and at international conferences.‬‭

• Physics PhD thesis on superconductivity.• Master’s thesis on the transport properties of graphene.• Postgraduate teaching assistant, where I helped to teach maths and physics undergraduate courses.