Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a software engineer and technology leader who's been around startups long enough to have opinions, developed in close proximity to production.

Over the past decade I've lived in startups and scaleups. I've bootstrapped on credit cards, been the first technical hire, scaled through investment rounds, and survived acquisitions with the majority of my sanity intact. Multiple times.

I've built platforms and teams from the ground up, scaled existing ones, and get equal satisfaction from writing code, thinking about strategy, and herding engineers and stakeholders in roughly the same direction.

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