Summary
Tom Engstrom is a Director of IT with eight years of senior leadership experience orchestrating IT strategy, M&A integrations, and security governance for fast-growing SaaS and enterprise companies. He has led global teams and programs at Twilio and Zipwhip—building repeatable M&A playbooks, executing complex Okta migrations, and maturing SOC 2/ISO/PCI compliance from the ground up. At Side he now oversees Salesforce, Workday, corporate IT, security, and vendor procurement with a budget-minded, operationally rigorous approach. Tom combines hands-on infrastructure and endpoint management expertise (Jamf, AD, VMWare) with a knack for pragmatic automation and cost-saving decisions. He’s known for creative, cross-disciplinary projects—like integrating IoT and messaging for marketing stunts—that reveal an operator who thinks beyond traditional IT boundaries. Based in Bremerton, WA, he pairs technical depth with people development and measurable business impact.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
aa Music and Business Management, aa Music and Business Management at Olympic College
Business Management - IT Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Business Management - IT Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Western Governors University
Olympic High School