Tom Stilwell is a Head of Engineering based in New York with eight years of hands-on experience building and leading product-focused engineering teams across fintech and AI startups. He blends a rare interdisciplinary background—Yale-trained in Chemistry and Theater Studies—with deep full‑stack skills (Rails, React/Redux, Scala, SQL) and a track record of scaling early-stage products from founding engineer to engineering leadership. Tom has co-founded and led technical teams at startups like Rally AI and Concentro, and has steered product and data engineering efforts at Engine by MoneyLion to deliver customer-facing financial platforms. Known for pairing technical craftsmanship with strong team-building and product intuition, he favors pragmatic architectures that ship impact quickly while cultivating cross-functional collaboration. An improvisational thinker from his theater background, he brings creativity to technical problem solving and a bias toward building things people actually use.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Engineering, High School Engineering at Staten Island Technical High School
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Chemistry & Theater Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Chemistry & Theater Studies at Yale University
Contributions:100 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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