Tom Shawver
Chief Technology Officer at Firebrand Technologies
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Shawver is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 16 years of experience building cloud-native products and leading engineering teams from startups to enterprise scale. He has repeatedly launched greenfield platforms and revenue-driving initiatives—ranging from AWS serverless migrations and ML-driven data pipelines to a charity-focused bookstore with in-house DRM—and has secured partnerships with Fortune 500 publishers. Tom combines hands-on architecture and principal-engineer instincts with demonstrated fundraising and product-replatforming chops, including re-architecting products for international scale and pitching a successful Series A. He’s adept at reducing operational cost through data and infrastructure modernization while formalizing security and compliance practices. Based in Philadelphia, he simultaneously leads technology at Firebrand Technologies and NetGalley, bringing a pragmatic balance of engineering rigor and customer-focused product design. An early-career professional magician, he brings showman-level communication and rapid problem-solving to technical leadership.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Digital Media, BS Computer Science Digital Media at Albright College
Github Skills (200)
polling10
component-library10
poller10
amazon-sqs10
semantic-ui-react10
mws10
nodejs10
amazon10
windows10
semantic-ui10
fomantic-ui10
continuous-integration10
json-simple10
react-library10
semantic10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
TomFrost/Toady
Jun 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:73 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
TomFrost/fake-mocha
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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