Tom Mchenry
Senior Engineering Manager at Pair Eyewear
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTom Mchenry is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Chicago with 12 years of software experience, currently leading engineering at Pair Eyewear after progressing from backend engineer to manager. He combines a developer’s craft—born from successful freelance JavaScript game projects and web design—with a manager’s focus on team dynamics, reliability, and empathetic leadership. Tom favors well-designed systems and playful experiments, breaking big problems into "atom-sized" wins and deliberately learning by building small toys in new languages or frameworks. His background spans content management, product engineering at Home Chef and Stripe, and hands-on freelance work, giving him a rare mix of product sensibility and deep implementation experience. He’s energized by failing fast, dissecting systems to improve them, and keeping as much of the architecture in his head to spot unexpected connections early. Outside of formal roles he continues to ship games and prototypes, using side projects to rapidly synthesize new technical approaches.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Dev BootcampMaster of Arts (M.A.) English Literature, Master of Arts (M.A.) English Literature at Purdue UniversityMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Fiction, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Fiction at Warren Wilson College
English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (18)
shipit10
neovim7
tmux7
zsh6
vim6
tmux-configuration6
javascript4
movie4
backend-api4
backend4
api3
react3
ruby2
rails2
twitter2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tommchenry/til
May 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:68 commits, 46 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years
fillershipittrick
tommchenry/adam-recommends-short-stories-to-you
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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