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Tom Titcombe

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CTO & Co-founder at Handlebar
📍 United Kingdom

Tom Titcombe is the Founder of Handlebar and Co-founder & CTO of Rover, focusing on reliable and trustworthy agentic AI. He holds an MSc from Imperial College London and has a deep background in data science and AI security, including developing the "PyVertical" framework at OpenMined.

Outside of his founder duties, Tom is deeply committed to the open-source community, volunteering as the InfoSec Team Lead for OpenMined. He dedicates his spare time to leading research on neural network security, differential privacy, and vertical federated learning.

His engineering team at Rover, where he is a part-time engineer, once merged over 400 pull requests in a single month.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
CTO & Co-founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
United Kingdom
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Trustworthy & Reliable AI
This is the core focus of his professional work as a Founder, as stated in his headline and current focus on applying agentic AI with trust.
AI Security
He volunteers as InfoSec Team Lead for OpenMined, leading research into attacking neural networks, differential privacy, and other security topics in his spare time.
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Career

Work history

11-2025
CTO & Co-founder
Handlebar
10-2021 - 6-2025
Co-Founder & CTO
Rover
11-2018 - 9-2021
Senior Data Scientist
Tessella
3-2020 - 7-2021
Team Lead
OpenMined
6-2016 - 9-2016
Technology Intern
Goldman Sachs
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Education
2017 - 2018
Msc
Imperial College London
2014 - 2017
Bachelor’s Degree
Durham University
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