Summary
Michael Norris is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable, secure SaaS products, particularly in FinTech and product-led startups. As Founder & Director of Tvrtle and former VP Engineering at Tillo, he blends hands-on engineering, product strategy, and team-building to ship commercially viable platforms with structured data and security by design. He champions engineering discipline—TDD, documentation-first culture, and reusable architecture—to enable small teams to move quickly without organizational drag. Michael is also an educator who creates internal training on secure development and progression frameworks that scale with growth. Based in Haywards Heath, he balances technical rigor with an entrepreneurial instinct for repeatable product discovery and sustainable monetisation. Outside work he’s a vegan, home chef and mixologist, reflecting a curiosity-driven approach that shows up in both leadership and product craft.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Colchester royal grammar school
Sheffield Hallam University
BSc (Hons), Software Engineering, BSc (Hons), Software Engineering at University of Brighton
English