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Toby Retallick
Toby Retallick, outdoors in a cap and a green jacket

Toby Retallick

Available for contract work from November 2026. Message me on LinkedIn.

Greater Brisbane Area, Queensland

I’ve owned the product, built the software and led the team.

Technical lead and senior full-stack engineer with 12 years of consulting and contract work in the UK and Australia.

I’m a good fit if you need:

  • A hands-on lead for a new build, or for a prototype that needs to become a live product.
  • Someone to steady a legacy platform and get the team back to planned work.
  • Cover for a key role in a regulated environment.
  • Safe, practical use of AI, in your product or in how your team delivers.
Message me on LinkedIn

“What sets him apart is the combination … Proven, high quality engineering paired with genuine consulting skills … an ability to read the room, earn trust with stakeholders and bring the team along, you don’t find that in a single lead often.”

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Clients include Abcam, Mastercard, Amador, the Department for Education, the Ministry of Justice and the Government Digital Service.

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Selected work

Amador, from prototype to live product

I took an inherited prototype to a live product in about four months, with AI-powered onboarding and an AI-assisted engineering workflow.

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Steadying a global student housing platform

I led a team in Australia and India on an unstable legacy rental platform. We added the first monitoring and tests, and moved from firefighting to planned work.

Property technology · Technical lead · 2025 to 2026 · PHP Laravel, TypeScript, NestJS

Rebuilding Abcam’s global e-commerce platform

I helped build sign-in, customer accounts and order tracking for Abcam’s new e-commerce platform. It launched in the US, Europe, China and Japan.

Life sciences, e-commerce · Senior engineer · 2022 to 2024 · React, Next.js, TypeScript

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Work with me

Tell me about your project and when you need someone. I take on hands-on lead, senior engineer and cover roles.

Contract preferred. Open to fixed-term or permanent roles.