Summary
Tom Mango is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with nearly 25 years building software and 17 years of documented industry experience, now serving as VP of Engineering at North. He’s led platform- and reliability-focused teams at Recharge, scaled core systems at TaxJar before its Stripe acquisition, and co-founded Limited Run, an ecommerce platform for independent artists. Tom blends hands-on principal engineering with org-level strategy—building serverless eventing, subscriptions, payments, and loyalty systems while guiding platform transitions and incident response. He writes about engineering leadership and system design at sleepingpotato.com and advises startups on growth and org design. An entrepreneur at heart, he’s concurrently developing Looping, a tool to unify architecture, teams, planning, operations, and docs into a single system. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs practical startup grit with experience scaling high-throughput production platforms.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Stony Brook University