Tommy Fotak
CTO at Biteable
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Fotak is a pragmatic, customer-focused technology leader and CTO based in Hobart, Tasmania, with 13 years of professional experience and a hands-on engineering background. He has led product and platform development at Biteable since 2014 after contributing to payments and marketplace work at Envato and building ocean data systems for the Australian Ocean Data Network at the University of Tasmania. Tommy’s career spans accessibility-focused device software, high-volume transactional systems, and web platforms, giving him a rare blend of embedded, backend, and product engineering perspective. He favors collaborative decision-making and shipping practical solutions that balance technical robustness with user needs. While primarily based in Australia, his early international stints in the UK and consulting placements across large enterprises reflect strong adaptability across domains and team contexts. Colleagues would describe him as a steady, delivery-oriented CTO who still digs into code and architecture when it matters.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tasmania
Github Skills (77)
portal10
geospatial9
gis9
javascript8
emberjs8
ember8
graph8
terraform7
web-development7
geoserver7
aws7
javascript-framework6
error-reporting6
netsuite6
eslint-plugin-import6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Biteable/ember-cli-poll
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 3 days
ember-cliember-addonpolling-serviceemberjsember
Biteable/code-of-conduct
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
The Biteable Code of Conduct
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
code-of-conduct
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