Lead engineer by day, freelancer by night.
Selected work
Hetzner Cloud capacity is chronically sold out, but availability shifts by the minute and the official dashboard only shows the current state.
An independent radar that polls the Hetzner Cloud API every 60 seconds, tracks every restock and sellout across each region, and publishes a running dispatch feed with email subscriptions.
2026Personal projectNext.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, Resend
Small engineering teams need on-call routing without paying enterprise prices or stitching together half a dozen tools.
A multi-tenant incident management product. Alerts route through email, Slack, push, or webhooks with retry logic and delivery tracking, billed via Stripe.
2024 — presentFounder and lead engineerNext.js, TypeScript, tRPC, MySQL, Drizzle, Stripe
Solar-diesel hybrid generators were deployed across remote sites with no real-time view of fuel, output, or faults.
An IoT portal that ingests telemetry through AWS IoT Core, surfaces real-time monitoring and control, and pushes firmware updates to the field.
2022 — 2023Software engineer at ProlectricNext.js, AWS IoT, TypeScript, tRPC, Socket.IO, DynamoDB
A dashcam that doesn't need a server, an app store, or a recurring fee.
A browser-only dashcam: MediaPipe runs vehicle detection through your webcam, captures save locally, and adjustable crop regions tune what gets recorded.
2024Personal projectReact, TypeScript, MediaPipe, Vite
Pulling Docker images across regions and registries is fragile, slow, and hard to audit.
A registry mirroring service that proxies and caches between any two Docker registries, with cryptographic verification on the way through.
2023 — 2024Founder and engineerNext.js, TypeScript, tRPC, MySQL, Docker
Adding Bitcoin payments to an app means running infrastructure most teams don't want to own.
An API and admin dashboard that handle Bitcoin payment processing on behalf of integrators, so they ship without standing up a node.
2023Founder and engineerNext.js, TypeScript, tRPC, MySQL, Bitcoin
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About
I'm Thomas, a software engineer based in the UK. I've been shipping production software for over six years, mostly on infrastructure-heavy products: SaaS platforms, IoT control systems, and multi-tenant tooling that has to keep running while teams sleep.
I'm a Lead Software Engineer at Autonative, working in a growing engineering team on digital platforms that help vehicle manufacturers compete in a direct-to-customer era. Before that I led engineering and DevOps at a digital products company: full-stack Next.js and NestJS, multi-region Kubernetes, observability, and the cybersecurity remit that keeps those systems defensible as well as functional.
Earlier I worked across cybersecurity at BT Group, IoT software at Prolectric, and a string of contract engagements as a freelancer. I hold CompTIA CySA+ and was previously GIAC GCIH certified. The throughline: I prefer building things that have to work for real people, on real infrastructure, for a long time.
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