Summary
Tom Middleton is a veteran founder and engineering leader with 25+ years turning early ideas into enterprise-grade products across embedded, web, mobile and advertising domains. He has built and scaled teams from small startups to organizations of 150+ engineers, most recently founding a stealth startup after leading AI-enabled business-systems engineering at HubSpot and large customer-service platforms at Wayfair. His work ranges from secure BLE beacon protocols and firmware to high-volume ad serving, storage virtualization, and consumer iOS apps, demonstrating rare full-stack fluency and product-first technical leadership. Known for shipping pragmatic, production-ready systems at scale, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with strong people and market instincts. Based in Hingham, MA, Tom combines founder-level risk appetite with institutional operating experience, often surfacing unexpected cross-domain solutions by reusing patterns from embedded systems to cloud services.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Echols-No-Major Computer Science Psychology, Echols-No-Major Computer Science Psychology at University of Virginia