Tom Lauwers
Chief Technology Officer at CreXo Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Lauwers is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over a decade of experience building educational hardware that scales to real classrooms. As founder and long-time CEO/CTO of BirdBrain Technologies, he led the development and commercialization of Finch, Hummingbird, and Owlet—products used by roughly one million students to learn coding, engineering design, and STEAM. He combines a PhD in Robotics with hands-on product design, leading cross-disciplinary teams of educators, engineers, and researchers through a listening-centered design process. Now CTO at CreXo, Tom continues to focus on crafting joyful, hands-on learning experiences while operating with a founder’s pragmatism from bootstrapped, profitable growth. His work is notable for translating rigorous robotics research into durable classroom tools and sustainable business models. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs deep technical expertise with an educator’s sensitivity to classroom needs.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Robotics, Ph.D Robotics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBabson College
Dutch, English
Github Skills (25)
adafruit9
minecraft9
ide9
arduino-ide8
blockly8
makecode8
arduino8
robot8
javascript7
robotics7
experiment7
bit6
typescript6
editor6
chrome5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BirdBrainTechnologies/BirdBrain-Arduino-Libraries
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years 5 months
BirdBrainTechnologies/Chrome-Scratch-and-Snap-Support
May 2015 - Nov 2020
Chromebook support for Snap and Scratch
Contributions:1 push in 5 years 6 months
chromebookchromesnapscratchchrome-extension
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