Tommy Situ
Tech Lead at Starling
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Situ is a tech lead based in London with 10 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native APIs and developer platforms. At Starling he leads the team responsible for core APIs, Open Banking and online banking security, delivering OAuth consent flows and marketplace integrations while embedding shift-left security and AI tooling into engineering practices. Previously he led development of Hoverfly’s SaaS platform and contributed significant back-end and test automation work to the popular Hoverfly open-source API simulation project. His background spans microservice migrations on AWS, enterprise full-stack systems, and early research roles, giving him a rare mix of hands-on engineering and platform leadership. He combines a strong test-first mindset with practical security engineering, and has repeatedly turned developer-facing tooling into reliable production services. Trained as an MEng in Electrical & Electronics Engineering at UCL with an exchange at RPI, he brings solid systems thinking to API and infrastructure challenges.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Exchange, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, MEng Exchange, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUniversity College London
Github Skills (12)
go10
api-testing10
test-automation10
mocking9
go-testing9
golang9
mocks9
testkit8
testing8
ui-testing8
teste8
mstest8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SpectoLabs/hoverfly
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Lightweight service virtualization/ API simulation / API mocking tool for developers and testers
Role in this project:
Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end & Test Automation EngineerContributions:58 releases, 148 reviews, 298 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tommy contributed to the testing infrastructure and back-end functionality of the Hoverfly project. Their commits focused on refactoring test utility functions and modifying test configurations within the functional test suite, particularly around the core functionality and the API of the tool. They also added new features to the control software like database flag to hoverctl and adding tests for the middleware command to ensure the project is running correctly. The user demonstrated a good understanding of the codebase and testing procedures.
proxytesterssimulationvirtualizationmocking
SpectoLabs/hoverfly-ui
May 2017 - Jun 2019
Admin dashboard for Hoverfly
Contributions:9 releases, 71 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years
adminjavascriptservice-virtualizationvueadmin-dashboard
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