Thomas Longhurst
Head Of Sales - Lending at Banking Circle
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Longhurst is a commercial leader with eight years of experience scaling embedded lending and payments partnerships across Europe as Head of Sales - Lending at Banking Circle/YouLend. He designs go-to-market strategies that let platforms like Shopify and Paymentsense offer branded finance without taking capital risk, and previously built partnership-led growth at WorldFirst and Global Reach. Comfortable at the intersection of finance, fintech product and distribution, he combines dealmaking with technical curiosity—contributing backend fixes to the popular Octokit.net library and developing the TUnit project in his spare time. Based in London, he has a track record of launching multi-currency and cross-border propositions that reduce friction for SMEs and financial institutions alike.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 Hons, 2:1 Hons at Durham UniversityCranbrook School
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Github Skills (9)
net10
asp-net10
octokit-net10
dotnet10
api10
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csharp10
apidoc10
testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
octokit/octokit.net
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
A GitHub API client library for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the development of the ActionsArtifacts APIs, evidenced by the implementation of SDKs for interacting with these APIs. They addressed a bug related to timestamps within the GetAllStargazersWithTimestamps function, ensuring accurate data retrieval. Furthermore, the user fixed namespace issues within the artifact models and corrected the content type handling to accommodate "zip" files. This work enhances the functionality and reliability of the Octokit.net library.
dotnetc-sharpsdkoctokit-net
thomhurst/BDTest
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
BDTest - A Testing Framework for .NET
Contributions:1 review, 432 commits, 477 PRs in 4 years
dotnettestingtddtest-automationtests
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