Summary
Tom Barker is a seasoned software engineering leader with 26 years of hands-on experience and 13 years of teaching, currently serving as Director of Application Development & Integration at JetBlue. He has guided cross-functional teams at HBO Max, Comcast, and Barclays, delivering scalable platforms and service-oriented architectures that power customer-facing and internal ecosystems. An accomplished author, he has written or co-authored books on high performance responsive design, intelligent caching, data visualization, and JavaScript performance with O'Reilly and Apress. He also invested in academia as an adjunct professor at Philadelphia University for over a decade, shaping the next generation of web developers. Based in Doylestown, PA, he combines strategic tech leadership with a hands-on, mentor-driven approach to building robust, enterprise-grade software systems.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, Italian