Tobie is an experienced tech entrepreneur, developer, and software engineer, with 17 years’ experience in the software and cloud-computing industries. In 2021 he founded SurrealDB, with the aim of building the ultimate cloud database for tomorrow's applications. He has experience in a wide range of different software stacks and development languages, with a focus on distributed databases, and highly-available architectures.

He is intensely interested in software development, and is always looking for ways to simplify the technology stack, whilst focusing on easier-to-use and simpler-to-build tech platforms. Tobie gained his Masters in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford, where his thesis focused on the use of versioning within distributed databases, cementing his interest in real-time data and immutability, and sparking a fundamental interest in distributed databases with a focus on massive data sets and fast, efficient, and scalable data query access.