Toby Bessant

Toby Bessant

Principal Engineer

London, UK

About

Hey, I’m Toby. I’m a Principal Engineer at Green Man Gaming , where I work to provide a safe and secure e-commerce platform serving video games to millions of customers worldwide. I also co-maintain an open-source project, generate-license-file , which takes the hassle out of license compliance for other developers.

Experience

Green Man Gaming
Principal Engineer Jan 2025 – Present
Technical lead on infrastructure modernisation, SaaS migrations, and zero-downtime platform scaling.
Software Engineer III Jun 2020 – Jan 2025
Full-stack contributor across Python, TypeScript, and cloud; built internal tooling and delivered features across a high-traffic e-commerce platform.
A2Z Cloud
Business Applications Developer 2018 – 2019
Configured and integrated business applications for clients; built Node.js middleware on AWS Lambda and ran requirements workshops.

Open Source

An npm package that generates a text file containing all of the licences for your production, third-party dependencies. Originally prototyped with a friend as a CLI utility for a university dissertation, it has since grown into a library with an active community - attracting contributions, feedback, and discussion across 4 major releases.
90+ GitHub Stars 50k+ peak weekly downloads 4 major releases

Contact

Want to reach out? Please email me.