Tao Bojlén

Staff Software Engineer

Edinburgh, Scotland, GB🇬🇧

Open to:Part-time rolesContract rolesMentoring othersCollaborations

I'm an experienced engineer focused on building great products that have a meaningful impact on the world. I care about simplicity, scale, and working with great teams. I've worked on platform engineering for large-scale data systems, data-intensive frontends, cloud/AWS infrastructure, and team leadership and mentorship.

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Career: 4

Staff Software Engineer

Cinder

Jun 2024 - Sep 2025

Cinder is making the Internet a safer place through its end-to-end Trust & Safety platform. As one of the first hires, I led our Platform team and architected & built foundational features from zero to one. Examples include a graph-based data foundation handling 1B nodes/20M events per day, automated workflows, robust CI/CD and incident-management process.

Senior Software Engineer

Cinder

Jul 2022 - Jun 2024

Senior Software Engineer

Intruder

Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

Intruder makes a vulnerability scanner with a focus on user-friendly results. - Led the development of the frontend, including a migration to modern Vue.js. - Managed and mentored two engineers, supporting their progression to senior roles. - Created a public log4j vulnerability mini-site that drew 300K visitors and resulted in Wall Street Journal coverage.

Forward Deployed Engineer

Palantir Technologies

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

- Led development of data integration pipelines and frontend tools for a government client in Denmark. - Deployed software that significantly improved privacy controls over citizens’ data.

Education: 2

The University of Edinburgh

MSc, Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

The University of Edinburgh

BSc (Hons), Cognitive Science

Jan 2013 - Jan 2017

Projects: 2

Shroud.email

shroud.email

An email forwarding service with a focus on privacy and tracker blocking.

fediverse.space

fediverse.space was a tool for visualizing & analyzing decentralized social networks. This open-source project received funding from the NLnet Foundation.