Summary
Thomas Fox is a staff engineer and startup founder with 11+ years building and scaling engineering organizations across frontend, backend, and ML infrastructure. As Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at Wendy, he led development of a multimodal applied-AI platform for on-demand children's stories, owning model fine-tuning, generation across text/image/audio, and production-grade ML pipelines. He has a track record of moving quickly from prototype to acquisition-ready systems, having held senior roles at startups that were later acquired and leading teams through M&A at The Climate Service and Mediaocean. Now at Shiftsmart, he combines hands-on implementation with org-level leadership, comfortable contributing from infrastructure to product UX. Based in Chicago and holding a CS degree from Loyola University Chicago, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and deep technical breadth across the full stack.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago
Canisius High School
Italian, German, French, English