Tom Schuster
Senior Staff Backend Engineer, Frame.io at Adobe
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTom Schuster is a Senior Staff Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating high-scale production systems, currently leading backend efforts for Frame.io at Adobe. He has a strong track record modernizing large web platforms—driving GraphQL federations, Next.js monorepos, and AWS ECS deployments at Chegg—and architecting event-sourced Elixir services and pricing systems at startups and mid-size companies. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Elixir, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, GraphQL), he balances hands-on implementation with team leadership, having led multiple cross-functional teams and schema governance initiatives. Tom’s background in both education tech and media SaaS gives him a pragmatic product sensibility alongside deep technical craftsmanship. He pairs a Columbia BA (Hispanic Studies with a math concentration) and Fullstack Academy training with a history of shipping tight deadlines—often turning multi-team coordination into repeatable delivery patterns.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Immersive Full Stack JavaScript Computer Software Engineering, Immersive Full Stack JavaScript Computer Software Engineering at Fullstack AcademyBA magna cum laude Hispanic Studies concentration in Mathematics, BA magna cum laude Hispanic Studies concentration in Mathematics at Columbia University
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (14)
knock10
api8
sdk8
mern7
golang7
mongodb6
collaboration5
react5
typescript5
nodejs5
nextjs5
javascript4
otp2
elixir2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
knocklabs/knock-go
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Official Go SDK for interacting with the Knock API.
Contributions:60 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 month
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tommilburn/intercom-untagged-finder
May 2018 - Mar 2021
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Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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