Tom Watson
Co-Founder @ Hessian
2026Co-founder· Hessian
Founder · since 2026Company
Hessian
Role
Co-Founder
current
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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
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Experience
Career
2026Hessian
Co-founderCo-Founder · 2026 – Present
2025GoCardless
Software Engineer · 2025 – 2026
2023CMC Markets
Software Engineer · 2023 – 2025
2020UK Civil Service
Software Engineer · 2020 – 2023
Bio
Tom, co-founder and CTO of Hessian – leads technical direction and engineering of the platform which Hessian runs on. Previously at GoCardless, he was part of a team which migrated the core payments database to a more scalable provider live with zero downtime, on a system processing over £1B on peak days. Prior, spent 2 years at CMC Markets building a 0-to-1 retail trading app for US investors. BSc in CS from Durham University, where his team won the IBM prize for shipping a production CMS.