Tom Akehurst

Tom has been a professional software developer for over 20 years. He’s built large-scale web systems for media, travel, hospitality, retail and government, applying lean, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Delivery and DevOps principles along the way.

Tom has always been interested in (or obsessed by, perhaps) networked system testing and automation, and as such he’s the creator of WireMock - the open source API mocking tool, which he’s now been working on for well over a decade.

Lately he’s also the CTO and co-founder of WireMock, Inc., where he’s helping complex engineering organisations effectively adopt API simulation techniques in order to build better software faster.