About

The engineer behind
HugMuninn

HugMuninn Ltd is the Ltd company for Tobias Piper — a software engineer, architect, and product builder based in the UK. It's the home of his contracting practice and the products he builds.

Tobias Piper

Over 15 years of delivering software across industries, stacks, and team sizes. Tobias brings both the engineering depth and the leadership experience to ship things that last.

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    Full-stack engineer

    Comfortable from the browser layer down to the datacenter. Frontend, backend, APIs, infrastructure, data pipelines — the full picture, not just a slice of it.

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    Polyglot by design

    Deep roots in Java and Kotlin on the JVM, TypeScript in the browser and on Node, and Python for data and tooling. Pragmatic about adding whatever the job needs.

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    Architect and leader

    Experienced in system and platform architecture, solution delivery, and technical team management. Equally at home writing code and shaping the broader technical direction.

Technical depth

Languages & ecosystems

15+ years of hands-on experience across the stack.

Java & Kotlin

JVM ecosystem, Spring Boot, microservices, event-driven architecture.

TypeScript

React, Node.js, REST and GraphQL APIs, full-stack web applications.

Python

Data pipelines, scripting, tooling, automation, FastAPI.

Cloud & infrastructure

AWS, GCP, container orchestration, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines.

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and the occasional NoSQL store when it makes sense.

Architecture

Domain-driven design, event sourcing, distributed systems, platform engineering.

Beyond contracting

HugMuninn is also the home of two products in active development.

See our products

  • gigz.online

    A community platform for international gig and music event discovery.

  • Milo

    A cross-platform, offline-first gym and fitness companion.

Interested in working together?

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