Tom Planer
Founder at Rindle
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Planer is a platform-focused software engineer and founder with 15+ years building and operating multi-tenant SaaS systems that survive real-world load and ambiguity. He blends hands-on implementation with architectural leadership, having scaled a Turing-complete workflow engine at Rindle to 100K+ events/hour and led high-scale, enterprise-grade platform work at Carbon Signal and MassageBook. Comfortable with end-to-end ownership, Tom designs event-driven pipelines, fault-tolerant workflows, and secure multi-tenant APIs while driving observability, onboarding, and compliance for Fortune-level customers. He thrives in remote-first teams, mentors engineers through complex systems, and partners with product and leadership to convert vague goals into durable platforms. Outside engineering he’s a husband, father, and youth sports coach—skills that mirror his emphasis on long-term thinking, clear judgment, and team development.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Rider UniversityCranford High School
Stackoverflow
8,401reputation
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152answers
12questions
stripe-payments
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laravel
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php
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database
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codeigniter
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Github Skills (116)
drag10
html-editor10
ckeditor10
wysiwyg10
sortable10
splitter10
jquery10
toggl10
rrule10
currency-exchange-rates10
react-dnd10
draggable10
recursion10
text-editing10
editing10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tplaner/When
Sep 2010 - Sep 2021
PHP Date Recursion library
Contributions:89 commits, 26 PRs, 43 pushes in 11 years 2 months
phprrulerfccurrency-exchange-ratesrecursion
Rindle/ckeditor5-build-balloon-block
Aug 2019 - May 2021
The build of CKEditor 5 featuring the balloon and block toolbars.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
balloontoolbarsckeditor
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