About Tom

I’m Tom. I’ve spent 25 years building and understanding the web.

I work across web development, security, search/SEO, AI and cloud infrastructure, doing a variety of projects.

I’m the CTO at SearchPilot, an SEO A/B testing platform I conceived and launched while running the R&D team at Distilled. I now lead its Product and Engineering team.

In 2017, I defended a PhD thesis on artificial intelligence: Self-motivated Composition of Strategic Action Policies. I’ve also spent a lot of time researching web security and reporting vulnerabilities.

Furthermore, I spend a lot of time doing web security research, hacking some of the world’s biggest companies. I believe I’m the only recipient of Google awarding a bug bounty for a blackhat SEO attack. You can see a video of me presenting some of my research on XSS sanitizer fuzzing here.