Toby Williams
Tech Lead at Orbital
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolToby Williams is a Tech Lead based in London with 9 years of experience building AI-driven, customer-focused software and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He has a strong track record scaling teams and products—from architecting serverless, high-throughput data pipelines that delivered 700x performance improvements to founding a Serverless guild and driving company-wide infosec improvements. At Tractable he unlocked multi-million dollar markets via partner integrations and later moved to lead Copilot, an AI assistant for real estate lawyers, at Orbital. He combines hands-on engineering (Python, Node.js, serverless architectures) with delivery ownership of complex, security-sensitive systems built for enterprise and government clients. Known for hiring and mentoring engineers, Toby also brings uncommon experience translating technical strategy into commercial outcomes and operationalising integrations with large ecosystem partners. He holds a First Class Master’s in Computer Science from Durham and is pragmatic about pairing product thinking with engineering excellence.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE - A Level GCSE - A Level, GCSE - A Level GCSE - A Level at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham CollegeMaster’s Degree - First Class Computer Science, Master’s Degree - First Class Computer Science at Durham University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
strava-api9
document-processing9
aws9
segmentation9
cloud-infrastructure8
typescript8
lambda8
infrastructure-as-code8
java7
sam7
tile-server7
cloud-development-kit7
logging7
aws-apigateway6
serverless6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tobyDickinson/strava-oauth2
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
A simple Node.JS OAuth2 client for connecting your app to the Strava API
Contributions:3 releases, 34 commits, 12 PRs in 14 days
jsoauth2-clientstrava-api
tobyDickinson/title-registry-api
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:11 PRs, 22 pushes, 5 branches in 7 days
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