Tom Barrasso - Product & Program | Software Engineering

I Work at the Intersection of
Design & Development

I have enterprise, independent, start-up, and agency experience crafting web and mobile applications big and small. My first app, StatusBar+, was launched when I was in high school. Since then, I have personally shipped more than a dozen Android & KaiOS apps. My latest endeavor is PodLP, a podcast app for smart feature phones with more than ten millions downloads.

Process

I work across the product & software development lifecycle (SDLC), from wireframing to user acceptance testing (UAT), from code reviews to trademark registration.

🎯 Identify a problem
👥 Build empathy
✏️ Sketch
🔧 Prototype
📱 Validate
🧑‍💻 Develop
✅ Test
🚀 Launch
📈 Scale
📊 Adapt
🎧 Maintain
📚 Learn

Work

Regardless of scale, I strive to implement solutions that set new standards and redefine what is possible. Below is a sample of my independent work.

I have worked with many great companies and organizations, including:

Learn more about me and my work at the links below.

Skills

I architect and implement end-to-end solutions with an emphasis on usability, scalability, security, and privacy. These are some of the tools, technologies, and services that I use.

Languages
1. JavaScript & TypeScript
2. Ruby on Rails
3. Java
4. HTML5
5. CSS3
AWS & Cloud
1. Serverless
2. Automation (CloudFormation)
3. Deployment (CodePipeline)
4. Networking (VPCs & TGW)
5. Storage (S3, RDS, EFS)
Frameworks
1. KaiOS
2. Android
3. Svelte
4. React
5. Vue.js
Tools
1. Version Control (Git)
2. Testing (RSpec & Jest)
3. Packaging (Webpack & Gulp)
4. Node & npm
5. VS Code

I pick tools & technologies based on product requirements, user expectations, and organizational constraints. Factors include budget, geography, availability, security, extensibility, maintainability, latency, and compliance. I learn new technologies quickly and have also worked with CDNs (CloudFront, Cloudflare), Docker (ECS, ECR, Fargate) Cloudflare (Pages & Workers), Babel, ESLint, Python, SQL (PostgreSQL, SQLite), PHP, Golang, Elixir, Kotlin, AEM, Objective-C, C#, R, JSON, XML, RPC, and more.