Profile

Tom is building Preston Werner Ventures and RedwoodJS. Tom was also cofounder of GitHub, on the board of Chatterbug, Netlify, and Hack Club.

  • Jekyll: A simple, blog aware, static site generator (used for this site).
  • Semantic Versioning: A meaningful method for incrementing version numbers.
  • TOML: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language.
  • God: Ruby process monitoring framework with easy extensibility.
  • Chronic: Ruby natural language date/time parser.
  • TomDoc: Code documentation for humans.
  • ProxyMachine: Layer 7 routing proxy in Ruby with Event Machine.
  • Gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
  • Grit: Object oriented Ruby bindings for Git (used by GitHub).
  • Ernie: Ruby/Erlang Hybrid BERT-RPC server.