Tommy Messbauer
Chief Technology Officer at Textual - SMS Commerce
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Messbauer is a seasoned CTO and founder with 14+ years building and scaling full‑stack platforms, most recently leading Textual’s AI-first SMS commerce platform from day one. He specializes in helping companies with product-market fit break through ceilings in scale, speed, and team performance by diagnosing root causes and aligning architecture, processes, and talent. His breadth spans databases, distributed systems, event-driven microservices, front-end UX, DevOps, and platform architecture—paired with deep, hands-on fluency in Go, TypeScript, Elm, Postgres, Neo4j and cloud-native tooling. Tommy combines strategic leadership with active coding, believing proximity to the code sharpens decision-making and credibility with engineers. He’s launched mission-critical systems at startups and large enterprises (including Dell and Google), hires and mentors engineers into leadership, and intentionally builds engineering cultures that embed AI into how teams plan, build, and ship. Based in Austin, he’s equally comfortable architecting high-availability platforms as he is delaying YAGNI to focus on real user value.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (197)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
panthershark/memory-stream
Mar 2014 - Jul 2019
Node.js streams implementation for buffered memory writes.
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 5 months
memorynode-jsstreamsnodejsstream
panthershark/xhr-browserify
Dec 2013 - Feb 2015
Browserify compatible xhr module with support for jsonp
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 1 month
jsonpxhrbrowserify
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