Hi. My name is Bruce Thomas. I'm a senior front-end engineer based in London — currently working on video advertising at News Corporation across The Times, TalkSPORT and The Sun. I have a masters degree in Graphic Design which informs how I think about UI/UX, and fifteen-plus years of commercial web development behind me.
Outside of product engineering I'm interested in AI tooling and automation — N8N pipelines, RAG practices, agentic harness design, and the day-to-day craft of working with LLMs. I was invited to present at the News UK All Hands Engineering Meeting in early 2025 on that subject.
My portfolio covers design and video work I'm most proud of. My resume covers the engineering career.
lifedrawing.art
In 2024 I founded lifedrawing.art — a non-profit life drawing community based in Hackney, London. It's also a production-risk laboratory: real users, real consequences, and every emerging technology I want to learn gets deployed there first. Stripe, Eventbrite, Cloudflare Tunnels, self-hosted N8N, Gemini AI, Imgix, JAMstack. It runs itself while I'm at work.
social platforms
arbitrary photographs
I love abstract and arbitrary photographs — in contrast to vanity shots. There are so many fascinating things in the world more interesting than a posed smile.
here is one of my own (from unsplash)
creative writing
My lifelong ambition is to write and finish a novel. Over the years I've participated in various writing courses, online competitions and social writing clubs. Some of the stories are published here — the story page is also an experiment in web components.