Summary
Tom Stuart is a software engineer and founding technologist with nine years of experience building secure, scalable platforms for fintech and consumer startups from London. He co-founded and served as CTO at Luna Protocol, architecting AWS/Kubernetes/Pulumi infrastructure and leading a team of 10 to ship a loan management SaaS that scaled a lender’s application volume by 20x. At Monzo and other fintechs he focused on security infrastructure—designing Vault-backed credential flows, identity-aware proxies, and end-to-end vulnerability triage—bringing a pragmatist’s eye to operational resilience. Tom combines hands-on systems engineering (K8s, Lambda, networking) with product-facing trade-off decisions, often personally implementing core infrastructure and complex execution sandboxes for untrusted code. He started his career in data and research, applying statistical rigour to credit analytics, and has repeatedly moved between deep technical implementation and team leadership. Comfortable bootstrapping platforms and navigating security constraints, he excels at turning hard infrastructure problems into usable, auditable products.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Makers
The University of Sydney
English, Dutch