Toby Dimmick

Freelance consultancy for a UK aerospace services company.

Work on the project includes:

• Design & development of AI-accelerated systems that automate administrative workflows:
  • Customer order handling
  • Quote generation
  • Supplier procurement
• Investigating API hook-points in client's existing ERP software to facilitate efficient automations
• Building an MCP server to perform administrative actions, as well as a general agentic knowledge base abstracting over the base ERP service
• Prototyping multiple architectures, mixing agent-based workflows with classical scripting for optimal results
• Researching existing company processes to produce formal definitions and documentation for internal usage

A financial data aggregator and API service provider.

Owned several cross-cutting platform initiatives across a TypeScript/Vue/React and Rust codebase:

• Migrated authentication from a bespoke system to AWS Cognito
• Built out CI/CD across the majority of the product
• Codebase conversion to a monorepo + devcontainer for reproducible dev environments, coherent review, and atomic deployments
• Defined infrastructure-as-code for AWS and Cloudflare micro-services
• Developed an Excel add-in for financial data end to end
• Integrated OpenTelemetry and authored team guidelines for debugging and investigation
• Prototyped Salesforce data integration
• Established agentic-development guidelines and modernised repo documentation for onboarding and agent use
• Added automated API, smoke, and UI tests in Checkly

A social platform centred on high-quality photography.

• Modernised the platform’s APIs using GraphQL
• Migrated the authentication system to a Keycloak instance
• Modernisation and re-styling of key pages using React; incremental migration from PHP

A UK-wide telecoms, internet and cloud service provider for businesses.

Worked in an internal software team building bespoke applications for other departments, alongside several customer-facing applications. Notable projects:

• A React web app for building sales quotes from current product and pricing data
• Migration of a heavily-customised on-premise Microsoft Dynamics CRM to cloud-based Dynamics 365
• A bespoke ETL-style data-synchronisation service integrating disparate commercial systems
• Continued migration of on-prem internal services to Azure, with continuous deployment and code-defined infrastructure

A company producing appliances for WAN acceleration and storage-protocol bridging.

A flexible role spanning development, testing, mentoring, and documentation. Notable work:

• IPsec VPN functionality
• WCCPv2 support, a protocol for real-time network-traffic redirection
• Conversion of user documentation to LaTeX for standardised formatting and cross-manual text reuse