Tom Widmer
Strategic Projects Software Architect
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Widmer is a Strategic Projects Software Architect with 16 years of experience designing and leading development of next-generation cognitive testing products at Cambridge Cognition. He is a full-stack engineer comfortable from rich JavaScript front ends to real-time embedded control systems in C and C++, and has progressed through technical and management roles from developer to head of software. Tom blends hands-on implementation—evidenced by contributions to open-source projects like an OggOpus web-audio recorder—with systems-level architecture and product delivery. Based in the Greater Cambridge area, he pairs a Cambridge mathematics degree with deep domain experience in neurocognitive test platforms. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical direction that balances performance-sensitive embedded constraints with modern web UX.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (9)
encode10
ogg10
web-audio-api10
javascript10
webassembly10
opus10
rust-wasm10
wasm-pack10
encoding10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chris-rudmin/opus-recorder
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
A library for encoding and decoding web audio as OggOpus.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on the `opus-recorder` project, which involves encoding and decoding web audio as OggOpus. Their commits demonstrate an understanding of the project's core functionalities. They implemented features like flushing the pause function and improving documentation. The user also refactored and improved existing features and fixed bugs in the JavaScript code.
ogg-opusdecodingopusoggwebassembly
tomwidmer/opus-recorder
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
A library for encoding and decoding web audio as OggOpus.
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 17 days
decodingcodecencodingaudioweb-audio
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