Tom Støwer
Co-founder And Senior Consultant at Entur AS
Agder, Norway
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Top SchoolTom Støwer is a co-founder and senior consultant with 13 years of hands-on full-stack experience, currently splitting leadership and delivery between Yunikon and Entur in Norway. He specializes in cloud-native systems, CI, and mobility-focused applications, combining front-end UX improvements with back-end integrations to deliver impactful open-data driven solutions. Tom has contributed to notable open-source projects like OpenTripPlanner and the Redisson Redis client, demonstrating comfort with both map-centric UX widgets and low-level Redis/Lua enhancements. His background spans product-focused roles at Kahoot! and agritech leadership at MIMIRO, where he built and led frontend teams to production-grade web apps. Fluent in bridging technical strategy and implementation, he brings entrepreneurial energy and a linguistics-informed attention to user-facing detail that often reveals subtle usability improvements.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computational Linguistics, Computer Science Computational Linguistics at University of OsloLinguistics Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistics Theoretical Linguistics at Concordia University
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (26)
caching10
javascript10
redis10
opentripplanner10
redis-client10
java10
javas10
lua10
front-end-development10
disk-cache10
web-cache10
memory-cache10
object-cache10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
An open source multi-modal trip planner
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:161 reviews, 9 commits, 63 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the front-end user experience and adding functionality to the OpenTripPlanner project. Their work included modifying map layer configurations, implementing a widget for adding custom parameters to trip searches, and improving the display of debug layers. Additionally, they fixed a bug in the back-end API related to retrieving detailed pattern data, demonstrating involvement across both front-end and back-end components. The user also refactored the additional parameters input.
multi-sourcemulti-modaltrip-plannermodalplanner
redisson/redisson
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Redisson - Valkey and Redis Java client. Real-Time Data Platform. Sync/Async/RxJava/Reactive API. Over 50 Valkey and Redis based Java objects and services: Set, Multimap, SortedSet, Map, List, Queue, Deque, Semaphore, Lock, AtomicLong, Map Reduce, Bloom filter, Spring, Tomcat, Scheduler, JCache API, Hibernate, RPC, local cache..
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 21 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the Redisson Java client, contributing features and implementing core functionalities. The commits demonstrate the user's involvement in adding functionality to the JCache integration. Specifically, the user worked on adding features around tracking the need for old values in pubsub messages and added the necessary counters in Redis. These updates involve modifying Java code and Lua scripts, interacting with the Redis backend.
jedismemoryrpclockredis-sentinel
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