Tom Whipple
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTom Whipple is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of experience building high-throughput systems and AI-driven products, currently based in Boulder, Colorado. He has led teams at PayPal and Numa to scale payment and dealership automation platforms, growing transaction volumes to billions and delivering voice conversational schedulers for service departments. Technically versatile, Tom has hands-on experience across languages and domains—from Go-based crypto on-ramps and Ruby on Rails APIs to embedded C++ signal processing and Python/Elixir ETL for healthcare. He pairs product-focused engineering with close stakeholder collaboration, having advised business teams and presented to executive leadership to drive platform quality. Less obvious: his background spans both real-time RF systems at NAVAIR and mobile computer vision at card.io, giving him rare depth in low-level systems as well as modern cloud and AI stacks.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Minnesota
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paypal
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Github Skills (83)
visa10
payment-service10
in-app-purchase10
receipt-validation10
paypal10
checkout10
credit-card10
payment10
detector10
android-app10
credit10
square10
scanning10
payment-integration9
sdk9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tomwhipple/piduinobot
Jan 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:17 pushes in 6 years 3 months
tomwhipple/STUtility
Oct 2013 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 7 years 6 months
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