Tom Borger
Staff Software Engineer at NYT Wirecutter
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Borger is a Staff Software Engineer based in Minneapolis with roughly 12–13 years of full‑stack experience shipping product-focused systems for journalism, nonprofit fundraising, and enterprise clients. He’s currently leading engineering work at NYT Wirecutter after progressing through multiple senior roles at The New York Times, bringing a pragmatic blend of hands-on coding, architecture, and team leadership. Previously at Classy.org he helped scale a fundraising platform used to raise billions and built secure payment and API systems, and as a consultant he delivered themable component libraries and gamified e‑learning for clients like Cargill and AMD. Tom’s background in theater informs a user-centered approach to product and communication, and he has a track record of stepping into small teams to design robust, maintainable systems that bridge legacy code and modern stacks.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Theater, B.A. Theater at St. Olaf College
Github Skills (14)
ipad9
api8
classy8
nodejs7
javascript6
react6
aws-lambda4
swiftui4
aws4
ios3
swift3
serverless3
extensible3
lambda3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
classy-org/paired-frame
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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