About

Hi, I’m Toby

I’m a technical recruiter, developer, technology enthusiast, coffee lover and dad, originally from Melbourne, Australia. I became a developer in 2007, made the shift to technical recruitment in 2016, and have never looked back. I love helping people achieve their goals and dreams, and I take pride in building great teams.

Speaking

• Co-MC of RubyConf AU 2024, April 2024.
• WordCamp Bangkok, February 2019
• WordCamp Cebu, March 2019
• WordCamp Kathmandu, April 2019
• Ruby on Rails Oceania, April 2019

Hire me

I’m not currently looking for work.

Find me

I’m on Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, Instagram, and GitHub.

Updates

2024

• November 17, 2024 Added a /uses page.
• October 21, 2024 Started work with Ferocia, looking after all things recruitment.
• January 22, 2024 Joined SKUTOPIA as a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist.

2023

• December 2, 2023 Returned to Melbourne.

2022

• September 29, 2022 Relocated to Boulder, CO 🎉

2021

• August 16, 2021 Lockdown 6 extended, now with bonus curfew 😭
• August 2, 2021 Joined Linktree as Talent Acquisition Manager.
• June 20, 2021 Back out of lockdown yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
• May 31, 2021 Back into lockdown aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh.
• March 3, 2021 Started work with ANZ.
• February 13, 2021 Moved the blog to Hugo on Netlify.
• January 2, 2021 Got myself a new Reid e-bike ⚡🚲 and have been riding it to and from work ever since

2020

• December 21, 2020 Began contract with Qsic as Head of People.
• December 3, 2020 Remigrated to Super.
• November 29, 2020 Migrated my blog from Hexo on Netlify to Notion and Fruition.
• October 5, 2020 Started contract recruiting work with A Cloud Guru ☁️