
Thom Vaughan is an engineer and consultant based in London with over 20 years of experience. He works across infrastructure engineering, policy research, and open source advocacy. He participates in international standards bodies and working groups on responsible technology governance, and contributes to policy discussions around AI, web crawling, and content rights. He builds and maintains software used by researchers and developers worldwide, and is a full-stack developer fluent in many programming languages. Thom speaks English and Swedish.