Tom Dowdell
Senior SDE at Casaba
Mercer Island, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Dowdell is a senior software engineer and entrepreneur with eight years of modern experience and a long track record of shipping high-impact systems at scale, from startups to global enterprises. He builds AI-driven platforms that connect research to production, notably co-founding Casaba to develop semantic modeling tools like Frog and graph-based memory engines for agent reasoning. Tom moves fast: he delivered an AI-augmented ESG survey system in weeks and cut a critical product page load from 38s to 6s through full-stack optimizations. His background ranges from cloud-connected automotive telematics and Kotlin mobile diagnostics to core platform work at Microsoft and performance-focused UI frameworks for WebAssembly. Comfortable leading small teams and collaborating with researchers, he blends product intuition with hands-on architecture and implementation. Based on his projects, he favors declarative modeling and graph-native approaches to make AI code generation more precise and auditable.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Nicholls State University
Github Skills (22)
ecma9
garbage-collector9
dotnet9
xamarin9
csharp9
android9
mono9
cli8
jit8
asp-net8
linux8
asp-net-core8
ios8
windows7
specification7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lesarde-co/frogui
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
lesarde-co/lesarde-co.github.io
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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