Tom Rogers
Systems Engineer & Lead at Longevity Holdings, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Rogers is a seasoned systems engineer and lead with over two decades of web software experience and a dozen years in senior roles, currently modernizing legacy cloud apps with React, TypeScript, Express and T-SQL on AWS. He excels at turning messy, stakeholder-driven requirements into well-tested, maintainable systems while enforcing coding conventions through continuous review and practical tooling. A hands-on mentor and team builder, he invents productivity hacks, codifies front-end best practices, and revitalizes Agile workflows so teams sustain velocity. Tom contributes to open-source tooling—adding sorting and testing to underscore-contrib—demonstrating attention to small, high-leverage improvements. His background in philosophy informs a clear, pragmatic definition of “quality software”: doing the right thing for the right reasons in the most obvious way. He is relentlessly transparent, documentation-focused, and comfortable piloting experimental tech while keeping production running smoothly.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Github Skills (4)
underscorejs10
javascript10
underscore10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
documentcloud/underscore-contrib
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
The brass buckles on Underscore's utility belt
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the `_.collate` method within the underscore-contrib library, adding the method and associated tests. They implemented sorting functionality with custom ordering. Their contributions included minor fixes to the code, matching the underscore style and updating the tests to reflect changes. The user also wrote documentation and changed the evaluation function signature.
beltunderscore
node4good/lodash-contrib
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
The brass buckles on lodash's utility belt
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
beltlodashjavascript
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