Summary
Thomas Aitken is a senior software engineer based in Sydney with 7+ years of full-stack experience across web and mobile platforms. He has progressed from early-stage startup engineer to senior roles at Instawork, Clipsal Cortex, and Schneider Electric, shipping systems using Django, React/TypeScript, React Native, and AWS. At ShopGrok he helped build data-engineering tooling, CI/CD and scraping infrastructure from the ground up, and later led small teams to scale those systems. His technical curiosity spans ML, cyber-security, and cryptography, and he is the creator of DirectDemocracyForum.com, reflecting an interest in civic tech and open discussion. Comfortable bridging product and infrastructure, he combines pragmatic engineering with a background in mathematics and philosophy to tackle ambiguous problems and deliver maintainable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney