Summary
Thomas Horrobin is a senior full stack engineer based in London with 11 years of professional experience and five years focused on building web applications across C#, Ruby on Rails, AngularJS and modern cloud stacks. He has led engineering teams and served as Head of Engineering, driving migrations to Kubernetes, standardising data workflows, and delivering measurable cost and scalability improvements. Comfortable in both hands-on backend optimisation (Node.js, Go, C#) and frontend work, he has repeatedly reduced cloud spend while improving uptime through pragmatic architecture and containerisation. He has experience in finance-adjacent products and stock exchange technology, and prefers roles in the greater London area within the finance sector. Colleagues describe him as a technically capable manager who enjoys building united, high-performance teams and mentoring engineers. An early founder with CEO experience, he brings entrepreneurial perspective to product and operational decisions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Victoria University of Wellington