Tom Walpole
Associate Principal
South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Walpole is an Associate Principal and seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years building production systems across consumer tech, fintech, and health‑tech. He has a strong track record as a CTO and architect—designing and scaling complex stacks that combine NLP/ML pipelines, ontologies, graph databases, and web microservices, most recently leading Trials.ai’s platform for AI‑driven clinical trial design. Tom uniquely combines hands‑on engineering with domain fluency in biomedical research, having started on an MD/PhD track and later led engineering at Pathway Genomics and contributed to OHDSI’s clinical trials work. He’s experienced in guiding teams through startup growth and exits (SparkFin→StockTwits, MP3.com→Napster) and in applying secure, distributed architectures in regulated settings. Based in South Carolina, he brings a pragmatic blend of research curiosity and product focus, often translating messy legacy data problems into open, scalable solutions. An avid musician who led an award‑winning blues band, he brings creative collaboration and stage‑hardened leadership to engineering teams.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
A.S. Computer Information Science, A.S. Computer Information Science at Coleman CollegeB.S. Psychology (pre-med), B.S. Psychology (pre-med) at Washington State University
Github Skills (16)
clinical-trials5
api5
ontology5
rest-api4
nodejs4
rest4
mhealth3
collaboration2
meta2
expressjs2
api-platform2
etl2
postman2
middleware1
redis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
trialsai/local-development
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
local-environmentdocker
bluesman/express-meta-tags
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 3 days
redisexpressjsexpressjs-middlewaremetaexpress
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