TOM Z — PRODUCT ENGINEER — LONDON, UK

Seven years of shipping,
explore to learn more.

00 — THE BUILDING BLOCKS

Each tile is a special experience.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION10FUTURE EXPERIENCESNEXT QUEST — 20??
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01 — QUEST LOG

The timeline.

2015–19

Imperial College London — MEng EEE

LVL 1 — UNI

Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2:1), President's Scholarship. Learned to think in systems before shipping them.

2019–23

Credit Suisse — Full Stack Engineer, Global Markets

LVL 2 - ENTERED THE WORKSPACE

Led trader-facing risk & pricing apps for structured products and equity options — then owned them through four years of production consequences. IBOR -> ARR migration, Symphony chatbot self-service, SVN -> Git and TeamCity -> GitLab CI for the whole team.

2020

CS Global Coding Challenge — Backend Lead

SIDE QUEST

Architected the backend for a global competition: 18,000 participants, >70 req/s peak, 95% of responses under 200 ms, >99.97% availability.

2022–24

Sup.co — Full Stack, affiliate-marketing startup

SIDE QUEST

Nights-and-weekends build: full-stack features on Node/.NET/React/PostgreSQL, Playwright testing, CI/CD and monitoring, tech-debt remediation.

2023–25

Deutsche Bank — Senior Engineer, Debt Capital Markets

LVL 3 - CHANGE JOB

On a $150bn+/year bond underwriting platform: built the KYC flow end to end, gRPC streaming instead of overnight batches, 10x hot-path speedups, microservice test coverage 30% -> 100%, Grafana/Prometheus observability and alerting across the system.

2025→

Founder & Product Engineer — AI-native products

LVL 4 — CURRENT

Four products shipped end to end — AIX (ad management, Meta & TikTok production API approvals), Synapse (biopharma news intelligence, Antler final round), Crème'ai (multi-agent crypto PM), CaF (coffee journal & friends, live on the App Store). Plus three hackathon podiums along the way.

02 — INVENTORY

Loadout.

SLOT 01 — LANGUAGES
SLOT 02 — BACKEND & FRONTEND
SLOT 03 — DATA & MESSAGING
SLOT 04 — AI ENGINEERING
CURSOR / CLAUDE CODE / CODEX
SLOT 05 — DEVOPS & OBSERVABILITY
SLOT 06 — SPOKEN
ENGLISH — FLUENTMANDARIN — NATIVECANTONESE — NATIVE
03 — CO-OP MODE

Let's start on
something together.