Tony Thomson

Orchestrated the engineering organization's growth by over 500%, scaling from 8 to 50+ engineers, by designing hiring rubrics, conducting interviews, and making key hiring decisions across all levels.

Designed and led the micro-service re-architecture of customer-facing services and the Vouch Message Bus, significantly enhancing system scalability and resilience.

Owned, redesigned, and implemented Vouch's core authentication and user management layer, ensuring secure and seamless user experiences across all applications.

Spearheaded the implementation of the Vouch UI library in Vue & React and migrated all customer team repositories to a monorepo, achieving increased code reusability and fostering cross-team collaboration.

Directed the engineering and design efforts for a critical software system, enabling efficient signal data collection and streamlined deal flow management.

Provided expert technical input and in-depth analysis for diligence processes, directly informing strategic investment decisions.

Launched a redesigned version of Quid's data analysis product, integrating the first React/Redux application into Quid's architecture, which significantly improved performance and user experience.

Managed front-end development operations, including backlog management, project planning, team assignments, and prioritization for Quid's core product, ensuring timely feature delivery.

Architected and implemented critical changes to Quid's data pipeline, enabling support for new feature development and enhancing data processing capabilities.

Led the comprehensive rewrite of Quid's principal web application to a React/Redux framework, resulting in substantial improvements in performance and long-term maintainability.

Launched version 1 of the Adobe Target Standard application in 2013, a key service within Adobe's Marketing Cloud, followed by the addition of Adobe Target Premium in 2014, significantly expanding product offerings.

Co-led the successful adoption of React/Redux for new Creative Cloud web apps, while effectively maintaining the existing web UI for Creative Cloud Assets.

Led a cross-geo team of UI developers for Adobe Target, serving as the primary liaison to UX and Product Management teams, and driving client-side JavaScript application development.

Planned and coordinated extensive code migrations and refactors across multiple frameworks, re-architecting application components to achieve improved maintainability and extensibility.

Defined and executed product strategy, including feature prioritization, customer outreach, partner management, and interface design for Hara's Energy and Sustainability System of Record.

Directed all UI and UX decisions for Hara ESS, leading a navigational and visual redesign to integrate new features and insights from customer research and feedback.

Led critical data integration efforts for Hara ESS, including co-developed solutions with partners like Intuit and OSIsoft to automate utility bill and interval data input.

Spearheaded data-focused co-development efforts with partners, leading the development of a billing integration solution with energy utilities across the US, establishing a key competitive differentiator.

Co-founded Kizmo, an interactive design and user research firm, specializing in user experience-based design, usability testing, and brand strategy.

Managed all client projects, including significant engagements for Hewlett-Packard and NEC, overseeing user research, interface design, visual design, and brand identity.

Led comprehensive business development, account management, and operations, ensuring successful project execution and client satisfaction.

Bootstrapped the company from inception to a full-time staff of six, achieving consistent profitability and establishing a strong market presence.

Managed a team of 10 engineers responsible for qualifying and integrating graphics drivers from ATI, Nvidia, and Intel into Apple's OS X software.

Ensured graphics driver compatibility and performance across a diverse range of Apple hardware, from the first LCD iMacs to the first Intel laptops.

Directed development priorities and managed relationships with third-party manufacturers of graphics card hardware and software, overseeing task prioritization, meetings, and reviews.

Led the qualification of graphics drivers and hardware on Apple's next-generation CPU projects, including pivotal work on the first LCD iMac, Titanium PowerBooks, and Intel Macs.