Tom Laster
Head Of Commerce & Messaging Partnerships, EMEA at Meta
Israel
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Top SchoolTom Laster is a seasoned commerce and messaging partnerships leader with 11+ years of experience building ecosystem and product strategies across EMEA at Meta, now leading Commerce & Messaging Partnerships for the region. He blends commercial acumen and developer empathy—having contributed Android fixes and AndroidX migrations to the Twidere open-source client—so he speaks both to platform partners and engineering teams. Based in Israel, Tom has a track record of scaling partner programs from regional market leads to continent-wide ecosystem roles and driving product adoption across diverse markets. His background spans consulting at Gartner to early sales and marketing roles, giving him a rare mix of strategic, technical and go-to-market experience. Multilingual and creatively inclined (developer, translator, 3D modeler and composer on GitHub), he brings a multidisciplinary perspective to partnerships and product growth.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
SDJAUC Santa BarbaraUniversity College Utrecht
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Github Skills (10)
kotlin10
androidx10
android10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
ios8
mobile8
android-developers8
android-developer8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
TwidereProject/Twidere-Android
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 187 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to migrating the project to AndroidX, modifying and updating various Kotlin files to ensure compatibility with the new Android support libraries. The code changes demonstrate the user's focus on adapting UI components and core functionalities of the Twidere-Android application to the latest Android development practices, including addressing build issues and fixing DM (Direct Message) and timeline display problems. Several commits also involved bug fixes to ensure the app's stability and address specific issues.
gnusocialandroidkotlinmaterial-designtwidere
DimensionDev/MaskWalletCore-Android
May 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 11 months
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