“Tom cares. He's a force multiplier that makes everyone around him better…
I highly recommend Tom as a leader.”
Businesses are ready for AI team members. Cyndra provisions autonomous AI employees on customer-owned hardware — configurable personas with persistent memory and a local skill layer, working through the same email, chat, and app tools as their human colleagues. Tom leads the platform architecture: agent hosts deployable in hours, bespoke skillsets mapped to real business practices, and observability tooling so non-technical operators can supervise a blended human-and-AI workforce.
The OKC Thunder's team psychologist had 25 years of military-grade assessment methods and no digital platform. Tom built one from scratch: a real-time scoring engine that benchmarks psychological profiles against team, league, and sport-wide norms. The Thunder won the 2025 NBA Championship in the platform's first full season. Now at scale nationwide, serving thousands of students, athletes, and businesses.
Marketing teams were drowning in siloed data across Google Analytics, Ads, and Meta. Tom took Fuse from zero to production MVP in six months, architecting a multi-agent platform with PydanticAI and Claude MCP servers — pioneering MCP patterns before Anthropic's standardization. He built the data verification layer that eliminates AI hallucinations and a prompt system that cut token costs 40%. The platform now serves 400+ marketing teams at $470K ARR, including Ziff Davis (CNET Group).
Tom joined Official as tech lead, then led all technology through the Bumble Inc (NASDAQ: BMBL) acquisition, supporting the founder's exit. Post-acquisition, he rebuilt the entire 8-person engineering team in six months with zero missed sprint commitments, handed the React Native app (100K+ MAU) over to Bumble's organization, and integrated data pipelines that gave the business real-time visibility for the first time.
Cache Architect · Simplenight
Redis caching for 700K+ hotels processing 70GB/min; response times down 85% to sub-100ms
2021 - 2024
2021 - 2024
Strategic Advisor, ex-CTO · Chainstarters
No-code Web3 platform for brands and marketplaces; authored the technical whitepaper
2018 - Present
2018 - Present
Owner · Yudame
Mission-driven software consultancy: AI agents, health apps, language learning, and a flower delivery service in Chiang Mai
2019 - Present
2019 - Present
CTO · Intelligent Trading Foundation
ML trading signals for 50K+ crypto traders; open-sourced across 22 repositories
2017 - 2020
2017 - 2020
Founder & Executive Director · Blockchain Hub Prague
Startup incubator; member companies raised $6M+ in seed funding
2017 - 2019
2017 - 2019
Senior Engineering Team Lead · Agoda (Booking Holdings)
Pitched a greenfield product to executives; spun into a 15-person department serving 40M+ MAU
2016
2016
Cofounder & Technical Director · Anou
Morocco's largest artisan e-commerce platform; $1M+ revenue and 3,000+ jobs, built in the Sahara
2012 - 2015
2012 - 2015
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Tom builds engineering teams that ship. Fifteen years as CTO across AI, fintech, travel tech, and e-commerce. Raised $3.5M+, completed three exits, delivered systems serving tens of millions. Architected Redis caches ingesting GB/s. Rebuilt Bumble Studio's engineering org in six months without missing a sprint. Bootstrapped a social enterprise to $1M revenue in the Sahara Desert. Now he's building AI employees that embody the best qualities you'd wish for in a colleague. Beyond the engineering, Tom excels at hiring the right team, making the tough calls, and shipping products people love.
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