About
Hi, I’m Toby
I’m a talent acquisition professional, 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.
- Ruby on Rails Oceania, April 2019
- WordCamp Kathmandu, April 2019
- WordCamp Cebu, March 2019
- WordCamp Bangkok, February 2019
Hire me
I’m not currently looking for work.
Find me
I’m on Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and GitHub.
Updates
2025
- November 28, 2025 Moved the blog to Micro.blog.
- January 9, 2025 Removed all links to Meta properties. Fuck Zuckerberg.
2024
- November 17, 2024 Added a
/usespage. - 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 ☁️