Tom Kluijver
Head Of Design at Motorola Solutions
London, England, United Kingdom
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Tom Kluijver is a Head of Design with 15 years of experience turning ambiguous problems into market-ready B2B SaaS and zero-to-one products, currently leading design at Motorola Solutions after Ava Security’s acquisition. He blends product-led design with measurable business outcomes—having driven multi-year tripling growth at Alta Video, shipped high-velocity feature cycles, and scaled teams while unifying product navigation across families. A Delft-educated integrated product designer with cross-cultural study in Kansei psychology, he pairs human-centred design with quantitative product metrics to shape roadmaps. Tom is also an entrepreneur who built Tones Gallery into a 22-artist network in 18 months, showing an appetite for both creative projects and operational scaling. He contributes to open-source tooling and infrastructure across prominent Python projects (Jupyter, pandas, urllib3, pytest), bringing hands-on engineering empathy to design-led teams. Curious and collaborative, he focuses on solving the right problem first and creating durable solutions that accelerate growth.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
pre-university education Science and Engineering science and health, pre-university education Science and Engineering science and health at Wp keesboekeMaster's degree Integrated Product Design (IPD), Master's degree Integrated Product Design (IPD) at Delft University of TechnologyKansei - Comprehensive human Behaviour and Brain sciences, Kansei - Comprehensive human Behaviour and Brain sciences at University of Tsukuba
Dutch, English
Github Skills (170)
probabilistic-programming10
restructuredtext10
python-click10
messaging10
package-management10
python10
testing10
command-line-interface10
http10
bash10
ipython10
metadata10
websocket10
code-completion10
refactor10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
pexpect/pexpect
Jan 2013 - May 2020
A Python module for controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:433 commits, 137 PRs, 133 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving the test suite for the project. Their work involved fixing existing assertions, updating and modernizing the test scripts, and adding new tests to cover different aspects of the functionality, including multi-line commands, unicode handling, and interacting with processes. Furthermore, the user added a new test for the `ptyprocess` implementation. They also implemented code coverage.
pythoncontrollingpython-moduleprogramsterminal
jupyter/jupyter_console
Sep 2010 - Feb 2018
Jupyter Terminal Console
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:126 commits, 47 PRs, 34 pushes in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the terminal frontend of the Jupyter console project. They worked on improving tab completion functionality, including making it work in the two-process terminal frontend and refactoring completion-related code. The user also addressed code quality by replacing tabs with spaces and removing unused imports. Furthermore, they implemented fixes for handling user input and output, including the integration with prompt-toolkit.
pythonconsolejupyter-notebookjupyterlabjupyter
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