Summary
Tom Schouten is an embedded software and digital logic specialist with 13+ years of commercial experience, running his own consultancy Zwizwa, LLC to deliver system software, FPGA designs, and signal-processing solutions. He blends research-rooted rigor from KULeuven with practical product work, recently re-entering Audio DSP while maintaining a niche focus on languages like Rust, Erlang, Haskell, Lua, Scheme and tooling such as Nix. Based in Brunswick, Maine with frequent travel to Belgium, he thrives on cross-border projects that combine functional programming paradigms with low-level embedded constraints. Tom’s background in electrical engineering and early research experience gives him a distinctive edge in marrying algorithmic DSP ideas to production-grade embedded implementations.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering at KULeuven