Tommy Saylor

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(June 2018 - present) Data collaboration platform

Software Engineer

• Joined as employee 4
• More here soon! :)

Oskitone

1yr (February 2017 - present) Electronic musical instrument studio in San Francisco, CA

Owner:

• Designed and manufactured original hardware products, then brought them to market online
• Featured in Make and Hackspace print magazines, on Thingiverse “Featured” front page, and Hackaday and Adafruit blogs
• Pitched at Hardware Developers Didactic Galactic
• Exhibited at Maker Faire 2018
• Wrote “Build Your Own Synth” React JS app for lead generation
• Used EAGLE for printed circuit board design, OpenSCAD for programmatic 3D modeling, and 3D printing

Thumbtack

4.5yrs (August 2012 - February 2017) Marketplace for local services startup in San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer

• Worked full stack and across all parts of product on web
  • conversion A/B testing on consumer landing pages from SERPs
  • pro onboarding, education, activation, and retention flows
  • monetization and payment flows, credit card management
  • static pages, terms change acceptance flows
• By the time I left, code I wrote was used by 250,000 active service professionals
• Mentored 9 new hires and 2 interns; hired and managed 2 reports

UI Engineer

• Authored first internal front-end styleguide and reusable component library
• Introduced responsive web design, icon font, CSS animations, modals, tool tips

BubbleLife Media

2yrs (August 2010 - August 2012) Hyperlocal news / advertising startup in Dallas, TX

Web Developer

• Brought in as first non-founder developer, worked in all layers of stack
• Wrote and designed major, integral product features: responsive design, HTML5/iPad magazine, mobile sites, surveys, crime maps, Facebook and WordPress integration, image galleries, interstitial ads, modal windows
• Integrated improvements to a preexisting 80k+ line codebase: Ajax APIs, CSS theme inheritance system, RSS parsing