Tom Hipwell
Bulb
Principal Platform Engineer
Kent, U.K
Tom is Principal Platform Engineer at Bulb, the fastest growing startup in the U.K and newly launched in Spain, France and Texas. Bulb is on a mission to make energy simpler, cheaper and greener. To do this, Tom led the design and build of Bulb's Billing Platform. Written in Python, the Platform uses a microservices architecture to provide a bunch of core internal APIs handling things like account management, computation of energy usage and billing. Tom has spoken recently at DOX London and Python London and lives in Kent, U.K with his wife Hannah and daughter Margot.