Tom Anderson

Current

• Senior Software Engineer at Local Matters, Inc.
• Principal Developer (and president) at Squeat Inc.

Past

• Senior Software Engineer (contractor) at Brightkite
• Senior Software Engineer at Local Matters, Inc.
• Major Geek at InfoNow

• Senior Member of Technical Staff at TRW

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Education

• University of Southern California
• University of Southern California

Recommended

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Connections

112 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• Squeat!
• Svvarm
• Vote Monkey

Tom Anderson’s Summary

I prefer challenging and rewarding work solving technical problems of all shapes and sizes. I enjoy working in organizations where everyone works well as a team and wears many hats.

Tom Anderson’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails, J2EE, C++, Javascript
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
Unix, Linux (bash, perl, csh, awk, ruby ...)
Git, subversion, capistrano
Passenger, Thin, Mongrel
Apache, Nginx
REST, XML

Tom Anderson’s Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  Local Matters, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Ruby on Rails developer for guidespot.com

• Principal Developer (and president)

  Squeat Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)

• Senior Software Engineer (contractor)

  Brightkite

  (Privately Held; Wireless industry)

  October 2008 — February 2009 (5 months)

  - Integrated with Flickr's API using custom-built Rails plugin.
  - Utilized Facebooker to send status updates and stories to Facebook and submitted several patches to the lead developer.
  - Upgraded message queuing to use RabbitMQ with the Workling plugin and submitted patches to Workling.
  - Helped implement database denormalizations to improve performance of various queries
  - Implemented parts of the REST API

• Senior Software Engineer

  Local Matters, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  October 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Ruby on Rails developer for guidespot.com.

• Major Geek

  InfoNow

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; INOW; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1997 — August 2006 (9 years 1 month)

• Senior Member of Technical Staff

  TRW

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  January 1985 — August 1997 (12 years 8 months)

Tom Anderson’s Education

• University of Southern California

  MS , EE , 1985 — 1987

• University of Southern California

  BS , EE , 1981 — 1984

  Graduated magna cum laude.

  Activities and Societies:

  marching band, jazz bands

Additional Information

Tom Anderson’s Websites:

• Squeat!
• Svvarm
• Vote Monkey

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