Tobie Morgan HitchcockCo Founder

United Kingdom - London, England

I am an experienced tech entrepreneur, developer, and software engineer. After finishing a Masters in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford, I have launched a number of products centered around, and powered by, a new real-time web graph-document database named SurrealDB (surrealdb.com).

I have over 15 years’ experience in the software and cloud-computing industries - with a focus on distributed databases, and highly-available architectures. I have experience in a number of different software stacks and development languages, including Rust, Golang, Javascript, Ruby, PHP, HTML, Objective-C, Swift, with extensive database experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, RethinkDB, Redis, InfluxDB, OrientDB, Firebase, CockroachDB, and TiDB.

I’m intensely interested in software development, and am always looking for ways to simplify the technology stack, whilst focusing on easier-to-use and simpler-to-build tech platforms. I started a Masters in Software Engineering in order to fully understand some of the underlying mathematical issues within the computer science space. My dissertation was focused on the use of versioning within distributed databases, finally cementing my 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. This extends into how machine learning and artificial intelligence can make use of improved data storage technologies to enhance real-time and continual-learning artificial intelligence.