Summary
Tom Hoyland is a Principal Agile Coach with nearly a decade of focused experience shaping product-led, DevOps-enabled organisations across Fintech, Entertainment, Gaming, Crypto and the public sector. He partners with senior leaders to translate strategy into sustainable capability-building, coaching and roadmaps that measurably reduce lead time to impact while energising teams. Tom combines hands-on delivery roles—from DevOps and release train engineering to coaching and facilitation—with board-level influence as a member of Agile Yorkshire and ongoing consultancy through that Agile. His background beginning in software development and business analysis within South Yorkshire Police gives him a rare practitioner-to-executive perspective, enabling practical, risk-aware transformation at scale.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Business Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree, Business Information Systems at Sheffield Hallam University