Thomas Burridge
Available for new work

I help founders ship infrastructure-heavy products: SaaS, IoT, multi-tenant systems.

Lead engineer by Day, Freelancer by Night.

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Selected work

Things I've shipped, and what they did.

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Hetzner Cloud Radar

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

VisitCode
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    NearIRM

    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

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    PowerPortal

    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

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    Webdashy

    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

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    MirrorQuay

    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

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    BitProxy

    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

Other work

A short list of the rest.

2024
RescueCore. Animal shelter management for rescues: animals, volunteers, fosters, adopters. Visit
2024
GitRuley. A web app to mass-manage GitHub repository rules without standing up a database. VisitCode
2023
All-The-Infra. A Docker Compose stack for local development: databases, queues, mail testing, and monitoring, pre-wired. Code
2022 — 2023
Lighting Portal. Refactor of a control web app for solar lighting towers: real-time monitoring, control, and energy tracking. Visit
2023
EnterpriseNest. A NestJS framework opinionated around DDD, onion, and hexagonal architectures. Code
2023
Data Warehouse. A low-cost cloud file store on S3, no database overhead. Code

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About

A bit about how I work.

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 lead engineering and DevOps at Propriotec, where I architect full-stack applications on Next.js and NestJS, run multi-region Kubernetes, and keep an observability stack that catches issues before they reach customers. I also hold the cybersecurity remit, which means the same systems are designed to be defensible, not just functional.

Before that 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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