Tommy Collison
Curs(or)in at Cursor
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Collison is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-focused products from education to low-code tooling, currently contributing at Cursor after a four-year stint at Retool. He helped scale Lambda School’s career-first coding education model and has experience in privacy-focused projects from his time at The Tor Project. Based in San Francisco, Tommy blends product-minded engineering with a knack for developer UX, evident in his move from teaching and operations into tooling. A NYU journalism graduate with language training in Arabic, he brings clear communication and cross-cultural perspective to technical teams. Notably, his GitHub bio highlights a continuing focus on making internal tooling approachable and productive for engineers.
10 years of coding experience
Summer Immersive Language School, Arabic Language and Literature, A-, Summer Immersive Language School, Arabic Language and Literature, A- at Middlebury CollegeBachelor of Arts (BA), Journalism, Major GPA 3.9, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Journalism, Major GPA 3.9 at New York University
Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (49)
security10
protect10
encryption10
surveillance10
media-queries9
flask-application9
cryptography9
privacy9
sprint9
functional-components9
preprocessing8
dispatch8
api8
thunk8
reducers8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tommycollison/tommycollison.github.io
Jun 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 271 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
freedomofpress/encryption-works
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance
Contributions:93 commits, 110 PRs, 52 comments in 1 month
protectcryptographyageprivacysecurity
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