Summary
Thomas Basche is a senior software engineer based in Helsinki with over a decade of experience building backend and full-stack systems for high-traffic consumer platforms and games. He has driven critical Kotlin and Python services at Wolt—re-architecting search and consumer entry points that handle peak-scale traffic—and now contributes to Netflix and Next Games within Netflix Game Studios. Equally at home in systems and creativity, he founded tombasche, shipping Super Pinball Adventure and producing game code, art, sound and marketing end-to-end. His background spans event-driven architectures, streaming pipelines, Kafka, Lucene-based search, and cloud-native infrastructure, backed by a CS degree and a graduate certificate in IT security. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs production-grade system design with a maker’s curiosity for games and interactive experiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Information Technology Security, Graduate Certificate Information Technology Security at Charles Sturt University
English, German