Summary
Tom Gordon is a Principal Engineer at Typeform with over 30 years of hands-on development experience and more than 25 years leading teams and designing architectures across Europe and Asia. He blends deep technical craftsmanship with senior management experience—having founded and led multiple startups and held senior roles at WeTransfer, bunq, Liberty Global and others—so he equally navigates product strategy and low-level engineering trade-offs. Known for building and scaling engineering organizations, he moves fluidly between consultancy, interim leadership and long-term principal engineering work. His career shows a pattern of joining high-growth teams and emerging products, then codifying sustainable practices and resilient infrastructure. Based in the UK, he brings a global perspective from extended international roles and company-building stints. Colleagues would note his rare combination of entrepreneurial risk tolerance and disciplined architecture-driven delivery.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English