Philip Kromer
Cofounder And CTO Of Tookstock.com at Vigilante
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Kromer is a seasoned founder and CTO with 16+ years building production-grade big data and cloud architectures, currently cofounder and CTO of Tookstock where he connects small business inventory to suppliers. He previously founded Infochimps and led its engineering to create a managed stack combining Hadoop, Kafka/Storm, Elasticsearch and real-time streaming at enterprise scale. A prolific open-source maintainer and author, his projects include Wukong, Ironfan, Configliere and he’s a core committer to Goliath, plus the O’Reilly book "Big Data for Chimps." Philip blends hands-on systems engineering with people-first technical leadership, explicitly focused on accelerating teammates’ careers and crafting magnetic company culture. Based in Austin, he also cofounded Vigilante and has experience as an EIR and community director, showing a mix of product, community and ops instincts. He brings a physics-trained, systems-thinking approach to making complex data usable and actionable.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Physics Physics Education, Physics Physics Education at The University of Texas at AustinB-CC High SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science & Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science & Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (199)
microfrontend10
linter10
apollo10
javascript10
bengali10
exchange10
ecmascript10
schema-validation10
typescript10
eslint10
data-structure10
urql10
android10
dataloader10
caching10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mrflip/lexy
Feb 2020 - Sep 2024
Lexy AF — Demo React Native / Apollo Stack
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
reactreact-nativereact-native-demoreact-demographql
mrflip/Egg
Nov 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:48 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 7 months
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