Summary
Thomas Bergstraesser is a seasoned software entrepreneur and technology executive with over three decades of experience building and operating large-scale cloud services and enterprise software. As a Co-Founder of a stealth startup and former head of engineering roles at Bloomberg Vault and Microsoft product units, he blends product vision, architecture, and go-to-market execution. He has led teams across startups and large organizations, shipping commerce, search, big data, security and privacy solutions and turning complex requirements into practical systems. An inventor with 50+ patents in commerce, cloud, security, search and workflow technologies, he brings rare depth in IP-driven product innovation. Based in New York, he is equally comfortable defining strategy for multidisciplinary teams and rolling up his sleeves on architecture for high-scale online services. A background spanning research roles at Siemens to engineering management at Bridgewater underlines his ability to navigate both cutting-edge R&D and production-grade operations.
8 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer