Tom Wahlin
General Manager, Pack Hacker
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Wahlin is a creative product and design leader with 13 years of experience building digital brands and scalable content businesses, most recently guiding the transition of Pack Hacker after founding and growing it to seven-figure annual revenue and a successful acquisition by AllGear Digital. He combines hands-on front-end craftsmanship—pushing directly to master since 2007—with strategic leadership, having hired and managed 50+ people and navigated a 60% pandemic revenue drop. His background spans design roles at Apple and The Infatuation, product work at startups like Cover, and agency experience delivering interactive work for major brands. Tom’s hybrid skill set blends UX-driven visual design, front-end engineering, and business strategy to align creative solutions with measurable outcomes. An active contributor to collaborative projects like a Google Fonts–based typography experiment, he favors simplicity, craft, and clear systems that scale audience and revenue. Based in Detroit, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a designer’s attention to detail and operational discipline.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Other; Certificate in Entrepreneurship Essentials, Other; Certificate in Entrepreneurship Essentials at Harvard Business School OnlineBachelor of Science Web Design and Interactive Media, Bachelor of Science Web Design and Interactive Media at The Art Institutes International-Minnesota
Stackoverflow
137reputation
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Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
typography9
google-font8
google-fonts8
responsive8
fonts7
responsive-design6
javascript6
jquery6
background-image6
raphael6
cross-browser6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
femmebot/google-type
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Collaborative typography project using select passages from Aesop's Fables set to Google Fonts
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on the front-end development of the project, as evidenced by the "Erin's css" commit, which includes styling modifications using CSS. The commits involve additions and updates to the `css/google-type.css` file, indicating significant work on the visual presentation and design of the project. Furthermore, the updates to the `index.html` file demonstrate integration of the updated styles and the inclusion of new fables within the project. These changes improve the overall design and user interface of the project.
google-fontspassagesjavascriptfontscollaborative
twahlin/tom-wahlin-v4
Mar 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 35 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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