Thomas Fox
Staff Engineer at Shiftsmart
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolThomas 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 ChicagoCanisius High School
Italian, German, French, English
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Github Skills (57)
monitoring10
javascript10
electron10
css10
chrome10
html10
nodejs10
cross-platform9
prometheus-exporter9
desktop9
system-monitoring9
time-series9
windows9
prometheus9
graphing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thomasjfox1/thomasjfox1.github.io
Jul 2015 - Jan 2022
Personal Site
Contributions:9 PRs, 170 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 8 months
thomasjfox1/color-palette-gen
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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