Tom Counsell
CTO at Chainstarters
Thailand
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Top SchoolTom Counsell is a seasoned CTO and founder with 13+ years building engineering teams and shipping high-scale systems across AI, fintech, travel tech, and e-commerce. He’s led product and org turnarounds at public and venture-backed companies—spanning a greenfield customer service product at Agoda to rebuilding engineering inside Bumble—while architecting real-time systems that process 70GB/min and ML platforms serving tens of thousands of traders. Tom co-founded an artisan e-commerce platform in Morocco during a Peace Corps stint, learned to design language-free UX for illiterate users, and later founded a no-equity incubator in Prague that helped startups raise millions. Currently he’s focused on practical, customer-owned AI employees at Cyndra and building Valor, an open-source AI developer that ships code, blending hands-on engineering with systems, ML, and developer tooling expertise. He’s pragmatic about hiring, open-sourcing work where it matters, and measuring product impact in milliseconds as much as in user growth.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science studies, Computer Science studies at Griffith UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityMechanical Engineering studies, Mechanical Engineering studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
English, moroccan arabic (darija), Thai, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (98)
cryptocurrency10
heroku10
django10
telegram-bot10
currency-exchange-rates10
trading-algorithms10
signal10
service-collection10
sdk9
trading9
python9
multithreading9
algorithmic-trading9
data-science9
decorator9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tomcounsell/django-project-template
Sep 2016 - Mar 2025
starterpack for new django projects
Contributions:2 PRs, 45 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 8 months
IntelligentTrading/data
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
ITF Data Collection Service
Contributions:46 commits, 12 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 3 months
itfparquetetl-frameworkservice-collectionetl
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