My Life

I am Thomas Barker, a software developer. Most of my career has been spent building mid-tier software for early growth start-ups. I'm especially interested in financial services and large web deployments.

I use my experience to help people trying to do new things whether in an early stage start-up or an established company striking out into a new area. Currently, I'm mostly based in East London and mostly working in FinTech.

I used to work at BullionVault(link is external) in west London. I did a lot of different things there, mostly writing logic for our internal accounting and money handling systems, but a little bit of almost everything.

Spent two years fiddling with the insides of Zopa(link is external) the UK's first peer-to-peer lending site.

In the past I helped to organise London's first BarCampBank(link is external) and I still help the new organisers when I can.

Since uni I've done various things, much of which has involved XML.

Picked up some industrial skills...

I studied computer science at Warwick University.

While I was at university I interned at Morgan Stanley. I learned a lot about money there :-)

When I was young I grew-up in small town west Sweden.