Summary
Robert Dunne is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and founder with over four decades of software experience and 26 years professionally, currently leading Tockify as MD/CEO where he designed and built a widely used SaaS calendar product. With a PhD in Mathematical Physics from Cambridge, he brings rare depth in theoretical thinking paired with hands-on skills from low-level distributed systems and OSGi runtimes to rich front-end design. His career spans finance, telecoms and startups—building mission-critical systems at Bear Stearns, architecting REST APIs for Telefónica O2 Germany, and creating runtime and dependency resolution technology at Paremus. Comfortable turning novel, complex problems into practical products, he combines research-grade rigor with an entrepreneurial knack for shipping usable software. An England-based leader, he blends systems-level understanding with product-focused execution across the full stack.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at University of Oxford
PhD, Theoretical Physics/Mathematics, PhD, Theoretical Physics/Mathematics at University of Cambridge
Twynham School
Bournemouth School