Tom Wells
Chief Disruption Officer at Synthesis Labs
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Wells is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and Chief Disruption Officer who combines 20 years of banking and finance domain experience with deep engineering chops in functional programming, realtime/hyperscale architectures, and applied AI/ML. He co-founded and scaled Synthesis Software Technologies to a 250‑engineer firm that exited in 2017, and now leads Synthesis Labs to help unlock disruptive opportunities across emerging tech. Tom has hands‑on roots in secure payments, HSMs and EMV systems as well as simulation-grade C/C++ systems from his defense work, giving him rare cross‑domain technical credibility. A pragmatic strategist and life‑long researcher, he excels at translating complex technical designs into commercial outcomes and technical due diligence. Based in Amsterdam, he’s equally comfortable architecting code paths as he is advising startups on product and go‑to‑market disruption.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Matric Matric, Matric Matric at Westville Boys' High SchoolBSc (Information Systems) Honours Computer Science, BSc (Information Systems) Honours Computer Science at Rhodes University
Github Skills (129)
terraform10
nosql10
database10
in-memory10
graph10
java10
disk10
strings10
redis10
key-value10
data-model9
hashicorp9
sql9
python9
bigtable9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
drshade/tomwells.org
Mar 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:113 pushes in 3 years 7 months
drshade/qmk_firmware
Nov 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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