Tommy Macwilliam
Director Of Engineering at Figma
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Macwilliam is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building developer and AI platforms, currently directing Engineering at Figma where he leads teams that power modeling, agent frameworks, recommendations, and extensibility. He co-founded Serenade, shipping the first ML-powered speech-to-code engine and scaling it to tens of thousands of users before acquisition by Figma, and previously led platform and productivity orgs at Quora. Tommy combines hands-on technical depth—from CI and build systems to ML infra—with a track record of turning research-grade ideas into production infrastructure that boosts developer velocity. Based in New York and rooted in Harvard CS education and teaching, he blends product intuition, developer empathy, and operational rigor to unlock high-leverage engineering work. An avid tinkerer beyond the resume, he’s known for making complex systems feel unexpectedly simple for the teams that use them.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (123)
microphone10
speech10
javascript10
snap10
validation10
java-bindings10
nodejs10
recorder10
css10
chrome10
cakephp9
linux9
nsis9
rpm9
recurly9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
serenadeai/atom
Aug 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 review, 144 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 8 months
serenadeai/driver
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:24 reviews, 67 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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