Tom Hoag
Making Great Software & Technology
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Hoag is a seasoned software leader and consultant with over a decade of experience designing product architecture and delivering production-grade mobile, cloud, and embedded systems. He built his early chops at Sun Microsystems—co-founding the Java Factory and leading telematics engineering—and later scaled digital coupon platforms and mobile apps as VP of Engineering at Valassis. As CTO of Tome and founder of SquarePi, Tom has shipped consumer-facing products from home audio subscriptions to print-at-home coupon solutions and led technical due diligence for M&A deals. He excels at reducing friction between technology and everyday life, bringing a practical, interdisciplinary approach that spans hardware integration, cloud backends, and UX-driven mobile work. Clients praise his ability to tame chaotic engineering organizations, implement agile processes, and get offshore teams producing reliably. Outside work he’s a beekeeper and former landscape architect, a background that surfaces in his talent for systems thinking and hands-on problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Michigan State Univeristy
Stackoverflow
2,980reputation
279kreached
51answers
23questions
iphone
top-5%
Github Skills (102)
public-transportation10
openstreetmap10
astar10
swift10
map-matching10
macos10
pathfinding10
ios10
geospatial10
graphhopper10
nominatim9
dijkstra9
amazon-api-gateway9
osrm9
amazon-rekognition9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tomhoag/AZDropdownMenu
Jul 2017 - Apr 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
menuswiftiosdropdowndropdown-menu
tomhoag/serverless-photo-recognition
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 14 branches in 5 days
api-gatewayaws-lambdainvokedawsamazon-rekognition
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