Summary
Tom Brandt is a retired software engineer with 12 years of recent professional experience and a multi-decade history building complex web applications, particularly in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript front-ends. He has led engineering teams and run scrums while remaining a hands-on developer, notably shipping Ember.js clients that consume Rails JSON APIs backed by PostgreSQL. Tom has run his own consultancy, served as CTO of a healthcare startup, and managed UI engineering at a San Francisco knowledge-automation startup, giving him a blend of entrepreneurial and product-focused delivery experience. He is disciplined about test-driven development and excels at translating product and user needs into robust, maintainable systems. Based in Ann Arbor, he now does contract work for clients with challenging Rails/JS applications and remains active in the developer community as a member of Workantile.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Science at University of Michigan-Dearborn