I'm an engineer and manager with deep experience in startups and larger companies, including Twitter and Cisco.
Director of Engineering & Boston Site Lead @ I lead Music, TV and Video engineering for Twitter. My teams work in London, Boston and San Francisco. From November 2014 to December 2015 (1 year 2 months) Greater Boston AreaSenior Engineering Manager & London Engineering Site Lead @ I work with the amazing engineering teams at Twitter UK, working on TweetDeck, Android and TV. I'm always looking for software engineeers and engineering leaders who are at the top of their game. Feel free to get in touch to discuss opportunities: tomw@twitter.com. From August 2013 to November 2014 (1 year 4 months) London, United KingdomEngineering Manager @ Looking after the TweetDeck team as part of Twitter UK From May 2011 to August 2013 (2 years 4 months) London, United KingdomHead of Desktop @ After Peer was acquired by TweetDeck, the team and I worked on building out TweetDeck's API to run its iPhone, iPad, Android and iOS applications. I also lead development on the TweetDeck desktop app, working with our partners including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Adobe and Google.
We grew the TweetDeck userbase to many millions across 5 platforms, including being the largest app in the Chrome Web Store for nearly a year after it was launched.
I also ran the mobile development team for the last several months before we were acquired by Twitter. From May 2009 to June 2011 (2 years 2 months) London, United KingdomCo-founder & Senior Engineer @ Peer was a small startup with the aim of using your social network to intelligently filter the massive amount of data on the web. We released a client that would augment search results with information that your friends had found useful. I led development on the Python cross platform client application. From March 2008 to May 2009 (1 year 3 months) London, United KingdomSenior Engineer and Product Manager @ I was part of the founding team at Techlightenment (now Experian Social, acquired by Experian in 2011). I developed requirements documents with clients, managed the small development team and contributed to development. From August 2007 to March 2008 (8 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Engineer @ From 2006 to 2007 (1 year)
MEng, Engineering Science @ University of Oxford From 2002 to 2006 Professional Diploma in Marketing, Marketing @ London School of Marketing From 2007 to 2008 Tom Woolway is skilled in: JavaScript, Python, Engineering Management, OOP, C, Software Engineering, Objective-C, Git, Ruby, REST, Linux, Software Development, Perl, Agile Methodologies, Java
Websites:
http://www.tweetdeck.com