Tom is a real pleasure to work with. He has an amazing ability to see both the big picture and the detail needed to make it happen. He is an excellent engineer and a real innovator. I would work with him again anytime.

One of my recommendations to young software engineers is, go work at a small company where you will have no choice but to do everything; to do software engineering, system architecture, operations, sysadmin, qa, dba, etc etc. To have to start and complete entire projects all by yourself. (Although not due to my advice, but because of his own circumstances) Tom did this. Tom has had no choice but to learn in a couple years what most people don't learn in a decade. And due to this, sees not only the problem at hand but also the big picture. For someone so young, he has much breadth and much depth to his skills and knowledge. And Tom is on his way to becoming a truly exceptional software engineer.

Tom is a real pleasure to work with. He has an amazing ability to see both the big picture and the detail needed to make it happen. He is an excellent engineer and a real innovator. I would work with him again anytime.

One of my recommendations to young software engineers is, go work at a small company where you will have no choice but to do everything; to do software engineering, system architecture, operations, sysadmin, qa, dba, etc etc. To have to start and complete entire projects all by yourself. (Although not due to my advice, but because of his own circumstances) Tom did this. Tom has had no choice but to learn in a couple years what most people don't learn in a decade. And due to this, sees not only the problem at hand but also the big picture. For someone so young, he has much breadth and much depth to his skills and knowledge. And Tom is on his way to becoming a truly exceptional software engineer.

Tom is a real pleasure to work with. He has an amazing ability to see both the big picture and the detail needed to make it happen. He is an excellent engineer and a real innovator. I would work with him again anytime.

One of my recommendations to young software engineers is, go work at a small company where you will have no choice but to do everything; to do software engineering, system architecture, operations, sysadmin, qa, dba, etc etc. To have to start and complete entire projects all by yourself. (Although not due to my advice, but because of his own circumstances) Tom did this. Tom has had no choice but to learn in a couple years what most people don't learn in a decade. And due to this, sees not only the problem at hand but also the big picture. For someone so young, he has much breadth and much depth to his skills and knowledge. And Tom is on his way to becoming a truly exceptional software engineer.