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
2004—2008
Computing with Networks BSc (Hons)
Sheffield Hallam University
2024
Machine Learning Specialisation
Deep Learning Specialisation
Coursera
Professional Experience
Apr 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dec 2015
Web Developer
Wizenoze»Remote»start-up: ~12 staff
- AI/ML integrations
- Cypress
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- React
- Redux
- SCSS
- TDD
- Webpack
Mar 2014
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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
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Feb 2014
Web Developer
Transversal»Cambridge»start-up: ~100 staff
- AI/ML integrations
- BackboneJS
- Browser compatibility
- Grunt
- HTML
- jQuery
- Mocha
Feb 2012
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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.