Thomas Hudspith-Tatham

Desired Position

Lead Front-End Engineer

Expertise

Leadership

  • 4 years experience as a department principal engineer
    • Lead department level front-end engineering alignment
      • 6 years as a professional full-stack mentor
        • Lead delivery on dozens of customer facing and internal products

          Full stack

          • 16 years experience in back-end and front-end engineering

            Web operations

            • 14 years experience in web application delivery

              Education

              20042008

              Computing with Networks BSc (Hons)

              Sheffield Hallam University

              2024

              Machine Learning Specialisation

              Deep Learning Specialisation

              Coursera

              Professional Experience

              Apr 2024

              Jul 2025

              Senior Software Engineer

              Dendra»Oxford (remote)»start-up: 50 — 150 staff

              • Lead product development of the customer facing rebrand resulting in significant upscales and retention.
                • AI/ML integrations
                • Angular
                • API design
                • Cypress
                • Design Systems
                • Django
                • Docker
                • ElasticSearch
                • Python
                • RxJS
                • Schema design
                • SCSS
                • Technical strategy
                • Terraform
                • TypeScript

                Jan 2020

                Dec 2023

                Principal Engineer and Tech Lead

                Beamery Inc»London»scale-up: 50 — 400 staff

                • Leading new Frontend development team of 6 engineers accountable for the new Design System, Multi Language, MFE architecture, A11y and FE tooling, improving scalability and developer efficiency.
                • Leading technical rollout and adoption of the Design System used across 31 projects, saving over 40,000 hours of engineering effort over 2 years.
                • Leading technical rollout of WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, a critical aspect of multi million pound contract renewals.
                • Leading the cross team "Frontend tribe” for over 26 Frontend engineers and 8 QA engineers - to foster knowledge sharing, and standardisation.
                • AI Engineering
                • AI/ML integrations
                • Design Systems
                • Docker
                • GraphQL
                • MongoDB
                • Next.js
                • Node.js
                • React
                • Scrum
                • Technical strategy
                • TypeScript
                • WCAG 2.1 compliance

                May 2018

                Jan 2020

                Mentor / Consultant / Open Source Developer

                Thinkful Inc»Remote»start-up: ~200 staff

                • Advanced testing
                • Documentation
                • Functional programming
                • Mentoring
                • Node.js
                • PostgreSQL
                • React
                • REST
                • TDD
                • WCAG 2.1 compliance

                Dec 2015

                Nov 2017

                Web Developer

                NowTV»Osterley»corp: 600+ staff

                • Advanced testing
                • Akamai
                • Continuous deployments
                • CircleCI
                • Functional programming
                • Jenkins
                • Mentoring
                • Mocha
                • Observability
                • React
                • Red blue deploys
                • Redux
                • Scrum
                • TDD
                • WCAG 2.1 compliance

                Aug 2014

                Dec 2015

                Web Developer

                Wizenoze»Remote»start-up: ~12 staff

                • AI/ML integrations
                • Cypress
                • Node.js
                • PostgreSQL
                • React
                • Redux
                • SCSS
                • TDD
                • Webpack

                Mar 2014

                Dec 2015

                Angular & React Curriculum Lead

                Thinkful Ltd»Remote»start-up: ~50 staff

                • Angular
                • CSS
                • HTML
                • JavaScript
                • Mentoring
                • OWASP
                • React
                • TDD
                • Technical writing

                Sep 2013

                Feb 2014

                Web Developer

                Transversal»Cambridge»start-up: ~100 staff

                • AI/ML integrations
                • BackboneJS
                • Browser compatibility
                • Grunt
                • HTML
                • jQuery
                • Mocha

                Feb 2012

                Apr 2013

                Web Developer

                AustNews»Brisbane»corp: ~20 staff, 1 engineer

                • Apache
                • API design
                • Architecture
                • BackboneJS
                • Doctrine ORM
                • HTML
                • jQuery
                • MarionetteJS
                • MySQL
                • OWASP
                • Schema design
                • Zend PHP

                Personal Interests

                My dog

                • My dog, Forest, is very important to me. I give him a healthy lifestyle — In return, he does the same for me.

                Football

                • A lifelong fan of Newcastle United FC and enjoy playing 5 or 7-a-side football.

                Calisthenics

                • Regular exercise in my spare time such as calisthenics and biking.

                Permaculture

                • The design principle created by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren is something I find fascinating.

                Philosophy

                • Reading (and trying to understand) philosophy, such as those by Alasdair MacIntyre and Plato.

                Cooking

                • Testing the limits of our Ninja Foodi for plant-based whole food meals.

                Construction

                • In an aspiration to live a self sustainable lifestyle, I like to read up and learn about building construction, renewable energy integrations, carpentry and sustainable house design.