Tom Jowitt
Director Of Engineering at Checkbox
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorTom Jowitt is a hands-on, outcome-driven technology leader with 12 years of experience scaling engineering teams and platforms across startups and high-growth product companies. Currently Director of Engineering at Checkbox in Sydney, he has progressed from senior engineer and platform lead roles to CTO and co-founder positions, demonstrating a strong mix of technical depth and organisational leadership. His background spans building web and platform migrations from legacy desktop systems, working with complex domains like GIS, satellite and energy data, and leading production-grade platform teams. Comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, Tom combines pragmatic engineering, hiring and process design to turn startup dynamics into repeatable scale. An unusual strength is his track record of moving tightly integrated C++/Oracle desktop systems to web architectures early in his career, giving him rare perspective on legacy-to-cloud transitions.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (88)
serverless10
bundle10
php-framework10
lambda10
symfony-bundle10
symfony10
debug10
sam10
php10
aws10
browser9
gatsby9
serverless-applications9
cli9
atom-editor9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
madecomfy/php7
Mar 2018 - Sep 2020
A PHP7 Docker image
Contributions:9 PRs, 30 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 7 months
docker-imagephpdockerphp7composer
tomjowitt/gotidal
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Go package for the TIDAL API
Contributions:2 releases, 25 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year
gogolanggolang-packagetidal
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