Summary
Ted Slocum is a Principal Technologist based in Richmond, VA, with a decade of software engineering experience across frontend and backend stacks, especially Python and JavaScript. He builds data-driven business intelligence dashboards with Vue.js and data pipelines, and is actively exploring PyTorch for applied machine learning. Ted has delivered mobile financial apps using React Native and AWS services, led freelance teams, and integrated payments and identity systems for production use. His career uniquely blends hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial instincts honed over eight years as a professional online poker player, which sharpened his probabilistic reasoning, risk management, and emotional resilience. Comfortable moving between rapid prototypes and production systems, he focuses on practical solutions that help small businesses scale insights into better decisions. Always curious, he pairs a construction background from Virginia Tech with a knack for translating complex requirements into user-centered software.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Building Construction, Bachelor's degree, Building Construction at Virginia Tech
English, Spanish