Engine Room Apps

+44 (0) 113 394 4342

Round Foundry Media Centre,
David Street, Leeds, LS11 5QP

A highly experienced management and development team who have extensive mobile, agency and digital expertise. Engine Room is growing rapidly and certainly ones to watch...

Meet the Team

The Engine Room office at night
Working on a mood board
Inside the Engine Room office
The project board

Tobin Harris

Co-founder, Joint managing director

Tobin is a entrepreneur, author and technology enthusiast.

With over 15 years industry experience, Tobin has consulted for a wide variety of companies including Wells Fargo Bank, the NHS and British Telecoms.

In March 2009, he co-authored NHibernate in Action, a technical book to help Microsoft developers understand a popular software component. Tobin also frequently writes on his blog.

Being a huge fan of simplicity, Tobin designed and created yUML, an innovative niche tool for business analysts and software architects. It is used by some leading companies including Bose Labs, Microsoft and Bank of America. yUML received over 24,000 visitors within the first two days of launch.

Chris Baxter

Co-founder, Joint managing director

A pioneer of mobile technologies, services and applications since 1995, Chris worked with multinationals such as Lucent Technologies and Hewlett Packard, to deliver groundbreaking projects when ‘mobile’ was just a twinkle on the technical landscape.

At Engine Room Apps Chris uses his outstanding mobile technical expertise over 16 years and intricate knowledge of the burgeoning industry to shape our strategy and drive operational excellence for our clients. Chris mentors our talented and growing team with continuous improvement processes to ensure clients requirements are met in a cost effective, efficient way.

His passion is creative mobile development on the iphone and ipad platforms and delivering dynamic mobile strategy for clients that suits their brands, fulfills their business goals and exceeds expectations.