Tom Dyer

Tom Dyer has extensive experience in software engineering and development. Tom began their career in 2008 as a Software Architect at Beacon Interactive Systems, where they designed domain models for and implemented maintenance workflow and contract management web applications for the US Navy. Tom led the effort to move the development organization to use Ruby On Rails, JQuery, Git, Behavior Driven Development, Cucumber, and TDD, RSpec, and to adopt a story-based iterative process. In 2010, they moved to RealGravity where they introduced BDD (Cucumber) and RSpec to the customer-facing and admin Rails applications and the development process. Tom then moved to District Managment Council in 2011 as a Software Engineer, where they added features to the two existing multi-tenant DMC Rails web applications and refactored and added front-end features using Javascript and JQuery. In the same year, they joined OurStage as a Senior Software Engineer, where they created an event-based, non-blocking set of Rack applications using EventMachine and implemented a real-time video streaming solution using Javascript and JWPlayer. Tom then joined General Assembly in 2013 as an Instructor for the Web Development Immersive, where they taught GIT, Github, Ruby, RubyOnRails, Javascript, JQuery, Angular, D3, CSS, HTML, Node. In 2013, they also joined The Concord Consortium as a Senior Software Engineer, where they added Google Analytics event generation to a molecular modeling front-end framework. In 2016, they joined WorkBeast LLC as a Principal Software Engineer, where they were the lead engineer for an in-house developed CRM implemented with Rails, Javascript, Angular.js, MariaDB, Pusher, Twilio and Solr. In 2017, they joined Aetna, a CVS Health Company, as a Principal Software Engineer, where they designed and implemented a microservice that sent push notifications to members' mobile phones based on Electronic Health Records (EHR), claim data and market segment information. In 2018, they joined AtlantisTechnology as a Principal Software Engineer, where they created multiple microservices for processing security/stock trading activities as part of a cloud-based, asynchronous, reactive system for a large fintech organization. Tom is currently employed at The Gnar Company, Inc. as a Software Engineer.

Tom Dyer graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Tom studied Computer Science from 1989 to 1994.