Summary
Toby Thomas is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building backend systems and transaction platforms across startups and scale-ups. A University of Waterloo software engineering alumnus and lifelong "human startup" learner, he’s shipped production features at companies like Hinge Health, Level, Tesla, and Shopify, often working on transactions, platform, and fleet network teams. He combines pragmatic backend engineering with a product-minded approach to internal tooling—previously building talent-matching systems at Paddle to help companies redeploy internal candidates. Colleagues describe him as a ferocious learner who iterates quickly, stays humble, and prioritizes positive impact on users and teams. Outside core engineering, his background in front-end design and brand work gives him an eye for UX and communication that helps bridge design and platform teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
John McCrae Secondary School
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French