Tom Baugis
Co-Founder, Technical Creative
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarTom Baugis is a seasoned UI-focused software engineer and co-founder with 17 years of experience building elegant, data-driven web applications and production systems. He blends design-first thinking with pragmatic engineering—shipping maintainable single-page apps, search-backed analytics, and scalable cloud infrastructure—from early-stage hires to product-led SaaS. As Frontend Lead at Parsely he helped define an industry standard for content analytics, and he later built bespoke interactive show tooling and a commercial booking SaaS at RGB Monster. A longtime open-source contributor, he is the original author of Project Hamster, a GNOME time tracker used by tens of thousands, reflecting his knack for practical tools that stick. Based in Edinburgh, he thrives at the intersection of product, people leadership, and clean UI code.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
6,472reputation
754kreached
17answers
2questions
numpy
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javascript
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passwords
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Github Skills (123)
async10
job-queue10
router10
rq10
gnome10
task-queue10
shell-extension10
redis10
passwords10
rendering9
javascript9
numpy9
scheduler9
shell9
redis-streams9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
projecthamster/hamster
Apr 2009 - Oct 2015
GNOME time tracker
Contributions:1098 commits, 1 push, 4 comments in 6 years 6 months
gnome-shell-extensiongnometracker
projecthamster/hamster-shell-extension
Jul 2011 - Oct 2015
Shell extension for hamster
Contributions:114 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 4 years 3 months
hamstershellshell-extension
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