Summary
Thomas Phipps is a seasoned technology leader and CTO at Kibo Commerce with 11+ years focused on web, commerce, and distributed system design and a career spanning roles at Kibo, Volusion/Mozu, and Dell. He specializes in architecting multi-tenant, scalable commerce platforms, cloud migrations (including colo-to-AWS), extensible payment and logging systems, and high-scale caching and messaging infrastructures. A hands-on architect who still enjoys tinkering, he excels at turning complex product requirements into pragmatic, extensible platform designs and mentoring engineering teams through acquisitions and replatforms. Based in Austin, he blends deep implementation experience across databases, microservices, and server-side JS with a pragmatic leadership style—and admits he’s never a morning person before 8am.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Illinois State University