Tom Wang

Tom Wang

Founder · London, UK

Founder of Applr, an AI-powered job application platform — angel-funded with early traction and 3% payment conversion. Previously founding engineer at Radom, building payment infrastructure end-to-end — Open Banking, mass payout, IBAN/ACH/Wise transfers, and AWS/K8s ops. MSc from Glasgow.

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Applr
AI JOB PLATFORM
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Tom Wang
FOUNDER
04/26 – PRESENT
Radom
CROSS-BORDER PAYMENTS
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Tom Wang
FOUNDING ENGINEER
08/24 – 04/26
China Mobile
ENTERPRISE
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Tom Wang
FRONT-END DEVELOPER
03/23 – 08/23

Applr—Founder

Selected Work

Experience

Founder

atApplr
Apr 2026 – Present · London

Building an AI-powered job application platform. Achieved 3% payment conversion rate post-launch. Secured angel investment.

AIProductGrowthFull-Stack

Founding Engineer

atRadom
Aug 2024 – Apr 2026 · London

Own payment integrations end-to-end in a 9-person team. Delivered Open Banking integration across 35+ countries and 100+ banks — checkout API, FX conversion, and settlement flow generating ~$300K/month net revenue. Built event-driven payment pipelines with webhook ingestion, idempotency controls, and resilient retry logic. Developed fiat payout services for EUR/GBP IBAN settlement. Integrated KYC/KYB and Travel Rule compliance, cutting manual review by ~80%. Rebuilt testing environment on AWS + K8s, fixing DNS, networking, and SDK issues across the cluster.

RustGoPostgreSQLRedisOpen BankingK8sAWS

Frontend Developer Intern

atChina Mobile
Mar – Aug 2023 · Tianjin

Built internal dashboards with REST API consumption and backend data aggregation. Wrote SQL queries against large-scale telecom datasets for operations reporting.

Vue.jsJavaScriptSQL

Skills

LanguagesRust, Go, TypeScript, Python, SQL, C++
SystemsEvent-driven design, REST APIs, Webhook pipelines, Async task queues, Idempotency, Third-party integrations
PaymentsOpen Banking, SEPA, Faster Payments, FX Settlement, KYC/AML, Ledger & Reconciliation
FrameworksAxum, Gin, React, Next.js, NestJS, Node.js, Vue
DataPostgreSQL, Redis, Relational data modelling, Data validation, Reconciliation
InfraAWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Structured logging, Monitoring

Education

MSc Computing Science

University of Glasgow · Merit

2023 – 2024

BBA Information Systems & Management

Tianjin University of Technology · 89.5/100

2019 – 2023

Activities

OpenClaw Hackathon · IC

Mar 2026

Participated in the IC OpenClaw hackathon

SiGMA Eurasia · Dubai

Feb 2025

Engaged with fintech operators and payment infrastructure teams across emerging markets

Affiliate World · Dubai

Feb 2025

Explored growth strategies and cross-border partnership models at scale

Encode London Hackathon

Oct 2024

Built a market-making tool during a 24-hour hackathon

Hoppscotch Open Source

2025

Contributed a production fix to the open-source API testing platform (60K+ GitHub stars)

Awards

LanQiao Cup — 1st Place Tianjin, National Excellence

2021

12th National Algorithm Design Competition

LanQiao Cup — 2nd Place Tianjin Region

2020

11th National Algorithm Design Competition

Software Copyright — Pet Hospital System

2023

Computer Software Copyright Certificate