Experience

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  Chainstarters

  • Portland, Oregon, United States

  • Strategic Advisor

    • May 2018 - Present
    • Portland, Oregon, United States

    Use Chainstarters to deploy your next NFT marketplace. Chainstarters makes Web3 easy for brands.

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  Bumble Inc.

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Head of Engineering

    • May 2023 - Dec 2023
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    Bumble Studio: Official, The Relationship App- Aligned engineering practices with the parent company's ops culture.- Lead the integration of data pipelines for BI and Finance departments.- Hiring manager for full replacement of the dev team, based in London.- Led a successful technical handover within strict deadlines.

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  Official

  • United States
  • Technology, Information and Internet
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Head of Engineering

    • Apr 2023 - Dec 2023

    - Aligned engineering practices with the parent company's ops culture.- Lead the integration of data pipelines for BI and Finance departments.- Hiring manager for full replacement of the dev team, based in London.- Led a successful technical handover within strict deadlines.

  • Technical Advisor

    • Oct 2022 - May 2023

    Where you and your partner create a beautiful and healthy ❤️ relationship.

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  Intelligent Trading Foundation

  • Prague, Czech Republic

  • CTO

    • Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
    • Prague, Czech Republic

    Intelligent Trading is a Fintech company serving investors in cryptocurrencies and other alternative assets. Our Portfolio platform enables tracking and re balancing of digital assets and currencies. Our Signals platform pairs traditional market trading concepts with pattern recognition and machine learning capabilities. Our research and education initiatives dive deep into fundamental analysis of blockchain networks.

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  Blockchain Hub Prague

  • Prague, Czech Republic

  • Executive Director

    • Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
    • Prague, Czech Republic

    B Hub is the environment teams need in order to grow innovative startup businesses. Since inception, many startups joined our community and have accomplished- $6M+ in total fund raising- Partnerships with local incubator programs and accelerator programs- Weekly education events lead by volunteer advisors- Founders Club for first-time entrepreneurs- Active advisors in legal, finance, CZ accounting, blockchain, mobile apps- Design Sprints 2.0 facilitation- 40 desks in our fully serviced 220sqm office in Karlin (financial district)- No equity taken from member startups- Investibility Benchmark for data-driven investorsWe measure our success by the number of synergies spontaneously arising between members.Our greatest weakness is PR and marketing and have until now only grown based on word-of-mouth. Join us and learn with us! We are constantly learning and experimenting.

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  International Study Programs

  • Startups Advisor

    • 2018 - 2019

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  Aztrana AG

  • Zug, Switzerland

  • Chief Technology Officer

    • Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
    • Zug, Switzerland

    social media startup aimed at teaching the world how to understand and serve you.aztrana.ch

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  Incorporeal Ltd. & Noble Software Foundation

  • Hong Kong

  • Owner and Chief Engineer

    • 2015 - 2018
    • Hong Kong

    Product and Engineering consulting for early stage startups and social enterprises.Thanks to our process automation and reliable software, our largest client grew their revenue +600% in 2 years without needing to increase staff count. The company was sold in 2018.

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  Agoda

  • Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

  • Senior Engineering Team Lead

    • Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
    • Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

    - Lead the architectural design and deployment of new experimental product features targeting the non-hotel accommodation market (formerly, AirBnB-style accommodations).- Prototyped and presented a bold new product concept to the executive staff. The project was widely accepted, quickly assigned a dedicated department, and is paved a new foundation for customer engagement.- Recruited additional senior developers to create an agile and high-energy team to drive innovation, move fast, and consistently deliver products with performance at scale.Agoda, in the Priceline Group (NASDAQ: PCLN), is Asia's leading and fastest growing online hotel reservation service with over 40 million monthly active users, in 39 different languages.

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  Anou

  • Morocco

  • Cofounder, Technical Director

    • Dec 2012 - Jul 2015
    • Morocco

    Founded upon the vision that online marketplaces can empower talented artisans to run successful businesses despite low levels of education.Tom led the IT strategy in re-thinking mobile commerce tools for use by illiterate business owners.Together with the founder, Dan Driscoll, they empowered the community to become the largest national cooperative in Morocco. Today, Anou does $1M+ in annual sales and is the largest artisan e-commerce site in North Africa.The economic impact on underprivileged communities is also observed through the creation of primary schools, community orchards, and health and wellness programs created by the same newly empowered business owners.Designing and building Anou's technology required living in Morocco's Sahara desert for 2 years and learning Arabic - an incredible test of perseverance and resourcefulness.Activities and Accomplishments:- Designed and built the entire software stack using the technologies listed above.- Used Agile Development methods and bootstrapped Anou as a Lean Startup.- Performed human-computer interaction studies to iterate on the platform's language-free design.- Initiated a culturally-responsive design strategy based on the cultural and environmental factors specific to rural Morocco.- Learned Arabic in order to work alongside Moroccans across the country problem-solving systemic issues that hold them back from participating in the global free-trade marketplace.Anou's ecommerce platform is built with Python/Django. It integrates with many other services and API's including AWS S3, Telerivet, Cloudinary, Sendgrid, Etsy, and Ebay.

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  Peace Corps

  • Morocco, Africa

  • Peace Corps Morocco Volunteer

    • Mar 2012 - May 2014
    • Morocco, Africa

    Representing the United States of America to identify opportunities for the development of small business in Morocco, America's largest trade partner in North Africa.Influenced social changes through consulting and teaching throughout urban and rural locations.Built up the economic capacity of business in underprivileged and resource-poor areas.

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  Nectar

  • Indianapolis, IN

  • Architect and Lead Developer

    • Oct 2011 - Mar 2012
    • Indianapolis, IN

    Nectar was a recruitment platform startup for the Healthcare IT industry.Activities and Accomplishments:- Directed the requirements gathering, design, and product development.- Built the entire back-end and front-end stack.- Collaborated with a designer to optimize the IU and UX.- Designed a matching and ranking algorithm using advanced mathematics to pair candidates with jobs.

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  Bluefish Wireless

  • Zionsville, IN

  • Developer

    • Jan 2010 - Mar 2012
    • Zionsville, IN

    Activities and Accomplishments:- Developed web applications using Cold Fusion and Ruby on Rails.- Led a cross-department think-tank for process improvement and future business development for the company.- Redesigned the outgoing transactional email system for stability and scalability.- Built tools to gather insights for data-driven improvements to marketing campaigns.- Created a training program to empower sales staff to take more control of their account's data. The program created greater transparency between the sales and IT departments and eliminated 500 hours of busy work per year.I've listed these accomplishments because they define the unique impact I made at Bluefish. Each of these projects were started from my own initiative to identify needs and invent solutions.

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  IUPUI

  • Teaching Assistant

    • Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

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  Indiana University School of Medicine

  • Research Assistant - Neuroimaging

    • Jul 2009 - Oct 2009

    Assisted researchers to improve their software product that scanned human brains and generated 3D visualizations for doctors.

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  Griffith University

  • Image Processing Lab, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

  • Researcher

    • Aug 2008 - Nov 2008
    • Image Processing Lab, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

    Medical Imaging - Blood Vessel Segmentation in Retinal Scans