Jack Timblin
Senior Backend Engineer Tech Lead at Monzo Bank
Tameside, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJack Timblin is a Senior Backend Engineer and Tech Lead with 12 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across startups and fintech. Currently leading backend engineering at Monzo, he progressed internally from Backend Engineer to Senior Engineer and Tech Lead within months, demonstrating rapid impact in a high-growth environment. Previously he co-founded and served as CTO of travel startup taptrip and is a Techstars alumni, bringing product-driven leadership and hands-on infrastructure experience. His background includes low-latency Go development and PHP-based platform work at companies like Sky Betting & Gaming and Purple, reflecting a pragmatic polyglot approach. Based in Tameside, UK, he combines formal Computing Science training with entrepreneurial grit and a track record of shipping production services end-to-end. A detail that sets him apart is his blend of startup CTO experience with senior engineering leadership inside a major neobank, enabling both strategic vision and day-to-day execution.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computing Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computing Science at The University of Huddersfield
English
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Github Skills (42)
graphiql10
codegen10
golang10
graphql-tools10
graphql10
artemis10
go-generate10
dataloader10
graphql-schema10
backend7
mongodb6
query-language6
go6
json6
database5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jacklaaa89/CodeAnalyser
Oct 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:235 commits in 1 year 2 months
jacklaaa89/ExpressionParser
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:107 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 5 months
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