Toby Hede
VP Of Engineering at CipherStash
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolToby Hede is a hands-on VP of Engineering based in Sydney with over 17 years of experience building distributed, event-driven cloud systems and leading engineering organisations across startups and large enterprises. He combines deep technical expertise in polyglot programming, data security and governance, and distributed databases with a proven track record of scaling teams and products at companies like CipherStash, Domain, amaysim and Reckon. Known for moving between principal-engineer-level delivery and executive leadership, he excels at turning complex architecture and compliance needs into pragmatic, auditable solutions. Outside work he channels creativity and discipline as an enthusiastic drummer and occasional powerlifter—traits that mirror his energetic, steady approach to engineering leadership.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Multimedia Instructional Design, Bachelor of Multimedia Instructional Design at Griffith UniversityBachelor of Arts Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts Philosophy at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (200)
jakartaee10
parser10
postgresql10
lexer10
azure-functions10
typescript-definitions10
ruby10
drizzle10
serverless10
ruby-on-rails10
midi10
sql10
lambda10
rust10
serverless-architectures10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
cipherstash-archive/sqlparser-rs-original
Sep 2023 - Dec 2024
Extensible SQL Lexer and Parser for Rust
Contributions:4 reviews, 27 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 3 months
lexerparserrustsql
tobyhede/rundown
Jan 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:131 reviews, 101 PRs, 946 pushes in 6 months
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