Summary
Thomas Marsh is a seasoned technology leader with a decade of experience driving Agile software delivery across startups, pharma R&D, and global enterprises. As Director at National Grid, he combines hands-on development with strategic leadership, championing pragmatic engineering practices and cross-team collaboration. He has a proven track record of delivering high-profile projects on tight timelines, leveraging pair programming, test-driven design, and modern architectures to reduce risk and accelerate value. Earlier at HedgeServ and ThoughtWorks, he led architecture and development initiatives, introducing continuous delivery pipelines, breaking monoliths into microservices, and implementing cost-conscious performance improvements such as rapid build times and sub-second page loads. His work with PLAOR and ThoughtWorks demonstrates a pattern of using the strangler pattern and agile coaching to transform teams, reduce costs, and empower developers to own quality. Based in Scituate, MA, he holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham and continues to seek challenging engineering challenges that define best practices in software development.
10 years of coding experience