Summary
Tom Brice is a Director of R&D and seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building and operating scalable web, API, and native mobile platforms. He combines hands-on software craftsmanship—spanning Go, Ruby, PHP, Python, and native mobile—with DevOps and CI/CD expertise to deliver high-traffic services (including content APIs serving 1B requests/day). Tom has a track record of leading remote, high-performing teams, mentoring engineers into senior roles, and translating product goals into iterative roadmaps and automated workflows. As a founder and early startup technologist he launched browser-based Android emulation tooling and led platform architectures for visual search and syndication systems, demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and deep systems thinking. Based in Northfield, Minnesota, he favors pragmatic, testable designs that reduce operational friction and empower product managers to configure complex rights and partner integrations without developer intervention.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Anthropology, Anthropology at Kenyon College
BA Computer Information Systems, BA Computer Information Systems at Metro State University