Summary
Tom Ragle is a senior full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading product-focused teams across ecommerce, fintech, healthcare, legaltech, and social impact startups. He combines hands-on execution—from infrastructure and databases to backend and React/TypeScript frontends—with proven architectural leadership, having bootstrapped MVPs and production systems as a founding engineer and lead. Comfortable as a solo builder or as an empathetic technical lead, he’s shipped secure, scalable platforms using AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Python and Go. Notably, he architected a sensitive reporting platform for a startup tackling sexual assault and has repeatedly stepped into rescue-and-stabilize roles to restore critical production flows. Based in the NYC metro area, Tom pairs pragmatic engineering with clear communication and a background in creative writing that helps him turn complex requirements into usable, well-documented systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts Creative Writing, Bachelor of Fine Arts Creative Writing at Brooklyn College