Keeping abstractions simple, the .NET Platform, tools to maintain your JavaScript and TypeScript code bases, constructing a better developer tooling experience, and developer setups that work across multiple platforms.
Projects
Finance
Bootstrapped the onboarding experience for a financial startup using React, Spring, and a variety of compliance services.
Fashion
White labeled an existing Ruby on Rails fashion sharing product so that it could be branded by any given company looking to collect feedback on its fashion line.
Legal
Created a functioning investor demo for a document review platform in React and Ruby on Rails.
Real Estate
Created a "cross framework" integration in a code base that was switching from Angular to React so that Angular services could be piped into React during migration.
Crypto-Currency Finance
Worked closely with the compliance department of a Crypto-currency exchange to ensure that their internal back-office tools met the Department of Finance's expectations.
Later helped rebuild and migrate customer facing trading website, focusing on keeping both platforms fully functional during the transition.
Ed-Tech
Worked closely with offshore development team to implement multi-language search on learning management platform.
Implemented connections to new learning management system, and supported client transition to new platform.
Provided support to keep platform running near platform's end of life.
Ed-Tech
Assisted in migrating large corporate client from end of lifed platform to a modern platform by increasing API performance beyond what was documented against a strict timeline.
Ed-Tech
Worked with client team to plan and begin transition of product suite running on .NET Framework 4.6 to .NET Standard.

Connect with Tom
Howell, NJ (home town)
Hoboken, NJ (current city)
A.S. Computer Science from Brookdale Community College
C#, ASP.NET, T-SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS, Ruby, Rails, Java, PostgreSQL
Tom Van Dort
Senior Software Engineer