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Hi, I’m Thomas

Thomas Fairhurst, smiling, in a grey cap

About

I build software that takes tedious work off people's plates. Co-founder of Leadlord, MSc Advanced Computing at Imperial College London.

Grew up in ChartresBSc at McGill, Montréalnow in London

Experience

  1. Leadlord (opens in a new tab)

    Apr 2026 – Present

    Co-founder, with James

    Bold ads, by the book: LinkedIn and Meta campaigns, with landing pages to match, that compliance teams can approve.

  2. PhoneHost (opens in a new tab)

    May 2025 – Apr 2026

    Founder & Lead Engineer

    AI phone hosts for restaurants. A paying customer, Miso Taco in Vancouver, ran it live: hundreds of calls answered and dozens of reservations booked straight into OpenTable. Pivoted into Leadlord.

    Built the platform and the owners’ dashboard end to end (React, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB).

  3. Research Intern

    Built a mobile app and review dashboard to collect speech data for low-resource languages.

  4. Software Engineer Intern

    Led an architecture study of a large Go/Java microservices test stack; cut test runtime by 30%.

    1. Software Engineer (part-time)

      Sep 2024 – Apr 2025

      Kept building the remote-access app from my internship.

    2. Software Engineer Intern

      Jul – Aug 2024

      Built, solo, an app that connects 200+ clients remotely to 50+ machines.

    3. Network Architect Intern

      May – Jun 2024

      Set up $50,000+ of networking hardware for a 75-person office.

Education

  1. MSc Advanced Computing

  2. BSc Computer Science (Honours)

    GPA 3.85/4.0

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