Tobie Hitchcock
Co-founder And CEO at Hire Insight
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTobie Hitchcock is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and full-stack engineer who co-founded and leads SurrealDB, a next-generation distributed NewSQL cloud database optimized for real-time, graph-aware serverless applications. With over a decade of hands-on product and engineering leadership and an MSc in Software Engineering from Oxford, he blends deep technical craft—demonstrated by core refactors and SQL/function work on the flagship surrealdb repo—with commercial product vision. He also co-founded Hire Insight to modernize retained recruitment workflows, showing an appetite for applying engineering to domain-specific workflow problems. Based in London, Tobie pairs systems-level thinking about correctness and performance with practical attention to multi-tenant security and analytical workloads. An unusual detail: his background in languages (BA French and study in Paris) complements his technical career, informing clear cross-disciplinary communication and product internationalization.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
A Level French German History Ancient Greek, A Level French German History Ancient Greek at Tonbridge SchoolMSc Computer Science Software Engineering, MSc Computer Science Software Engineering at University of OxfordFrench, French at The University of London Institute in ParisUniversity College London
English, French, German
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Github Skills (9)
rust10
sql10
database-design10
data-structure9
datastructures-algorithms9
algorithm9
data-structures9
data-storage9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
surrealdb/surrealdb
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1328 reviews, 1915 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Tobie's contributions focused on refactoring and streamlining code within the `surrealdb/surrealdb` repository. They removed redundant implementations, ensured the correct encoding of datastore keys, and integrated functionality to convert record IDs. The code changes indicate a focus on optimizing the core logic for storing, accessing, and managing data, especially related to data models and edge definitions. They added various SQL functions, including those related to time and arrays, and improvements to the underlying SQL data access.
realtimedatabase-as-a-serviceserverlessnosql-databasedeveloper-tools
surrealdb/cork
Sep 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:79 commits, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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