Toby Irvine
VP Of Software Engineering at Pod
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Irvine is a seasoned software engineering leader and founder with 25 years’ hands-on experience designing and delivering large-scale systems across banking, payments, energy and telecoms. Currently VP of Software Engineering at Pod, he has a proven track record transforming product delivery through capability building, secure-by-design practices, and pragmatic ways of working. He founded Secure Delivery to help regulated organisations scale secure software delivery, blending deep domain knowledge in security and quality with practical coaching across engineering and product teams. Known for an approachable, people-centred leadership style, Toby combines technical depth—from platform and cloud security to DevOps transformation—with strategic advisory experience for enterprise clients. An early researcher in materials science and a former CTO/founder, he brings curiosity and cross-disciplinary thinking to complex technical and organisational challenges.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Chemistry, BSc (Hons), Chemistry at University of PortsmouthPostgraduate Researcher, Materials Science And Metallurgy, Postgraduate Researcher, Materials Science And Metallurgy at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (11)
concourse8
elm7
continuous-integration7
gocd7
runc6
continuous-delivery6
golang5
containerd5
docker5
go4
container3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
secure-delivery/secure-delivery.github.io
Apr 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 118 pushes in 4 years 2 months
secure-delivery/BenchmarkJava
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
OWASP Benchmark is a test suite designed to verify the speed and accuracy of software vulnerability detection tools. A fully runnable web app written in Java, it supports analysis by Static (SAST), Dynamic (DAST), and Runtime (IAST) tools that support Java. The idea is that since it is fully runnable and all the vulnerabilities are actually exploit
Contributions:19 PRs, 21 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 8 months
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