Tom Barrasso
Founder at PodLP
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTom Barrasso is a founder and product-minded engineer with 14 years of experience taking digital products from prototype to global scale, most recently growing PodLP into the leading podcast app for feature phones with over 10M installs across 175 countries. He blends hands-on software craft (mobile, web, desktop) with program management and developer advocacy, having led developer experience at CloudMosa’s Cloud Phone and driven privacy-focused TPM programs at Meta. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, Tom has shipped consumer products on constrained platforms (KaiOS/4G feature phones) and built tooling and outreach to grow underserved app ecosystems. He pairs entrepreneurial instincts with rigorous operational experience from large tech (Meta, Amazon, PillPack) through early-stage startups and consulting. Based in Arlington, MA, he also applies technical problem solving to real-estate and small-business ventures, reflecting a pragmatic builder’s range. Notably, his career spans both bio-research and production engineering, revealing an unusual mix of scientific curiosity and product delivery.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Cambridge Rindge and Latin High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (109)
parser10
editable10
feed10
resume10
podcast10
rapidapi10
javascript9
rss9
react-component9
js9
data-visualization9
html9
python9
reactjs-components9
grids9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tobce/Noyze
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
Tombarr/open-source-words
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Visualization of the most frequent words used in open source projects
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 days
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