Tom Lechner
Retired at Tom.com
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Lechner is a seasoned agile software engineering leader with 20 years of experience delivering large-scale, enterprise SaaS and collaboration products from IBM to Skillsoft. He has a proven track record building and managing distributed teams across the US, Europe, and Asia to modernize development practices, migrate legacy systems to cloud platforms, and launch award-winning products like Percipio. Known for driving agile transformations and measurable quality improvements, he has repeatedly cut defect backlogs, accelerated release cadence, and improved performance and TCO through architectural and process changes. Tom combines program-level stewardship—managing multimillion-dollar budgets and PMOs—with deep delivery focus, having led major CMS, collaboration, and SmartCloud migrations that improved customer satisfaction. Now retired in Greater Boston, he pairs an MBA-backed business perspective with hands-on ops experience and a knack for translating complex technical efforts into clear metrics and customer outcomes. An understated strength is his history of enabling simultaneous international releases and operational migrations that saved substantial costs while unlocking new market opportunities.
20 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Northeastern University
Github Skills (12)
windowing10
open-source10
game-development10
game-engine10
desktop-publishing10
desktop10
godot9
gnu7
font-editor5
opentype5
linux4
windows4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Laidout/laidout-icons
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Laidout/laidout
Mar 2006 - Jan 2023
Laidout, desktop publishing software
Contributions:69 releases, 2631 commits, 4 PRs in 17 years 1 month
desktop-publishingpublishingdesktop
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