Tomislav Pesut
Principal Engineer at Intersection Co.
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolTomislav Pesut is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building and optimizing large, reliable web systems across the full stack, currently leading architecture and delivery at Intersection Co. He brings deep expertise in JavaScript/AngularJS, Ruby/Rails and Java, with a track record of performance-focused front-end optimization and scalable back-end work from startups to enterprise teams. Tomislav pairs hands-on coding with technical leadership—mentoring engineers, guiding complex system design, and shipping cross-functional projects that span real-time WebSocket platforms to SaaS products. His background includes open-source contributions and tooling work (including a past focus on notebook front-ends at Two Sigma) and an unusual early career in professional ballet, reflecting discipline and creative problem solving. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, he blends pragmatic engineering with a penchant for improving runtime performance and developer workflows.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Recurse Center (ex Hacker School)Bachelor of Arts (BA) Theatre/Theater, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Theatre/Theater at School of Classical Ballet
English, Croatian
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Github Skills (114)
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role-management10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tomca32/idea-config
May 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:226 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
MindLeaps/tracker
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Student progress tracking for Mindleaps
Contributions:64 releases, 66 reviews, 2287 commits in 7 years 3 months
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