Tom Hughes-Croucher
San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES
Leading speaker on Internet Technology with a Highly Engaging Style
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Biography
Tom Hughes-Croucher has been working in the Internet industry since he has been working. Tom has work with numerous global brands including Yahoo!, Walmart, Tesco, NASA, Cisco, VMWare, Comcast, MySpace to name a few.
For more than a decade Tom has pursued the technology we use to build the Internet and the Web. From startups to spending nearly 5 years at Yahoo! including the homepage, he moved on to Joyent. At Joyent he spent a year working with the Node.js team. Tom then founded Jetpacks for Dinosaurs a high-end consultancy, which helped top brands achieve their scale and performance goals with their Internet applications. Tom is now the CTO at Change.org, helping to make a difference in the world by empowering every individual to use the Internet to enact democratic change.
Tom is the lead-author of Node: Up and Running, published by O'Reilly. He has also provided contributions to a number of other technology titles. Tom contributed to a number of standards on Web technology for standards bodies such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). He has also contributed published and cited research in the fields of Semantic Web and Web Accessibility.
Tom lives in San Francisco and enjoys vegetarian food, cycling and movies with friends. He is a proud Godfather.
Industry Expertise (5)
Computer Networking
Computer Software
Information Technology and Services
Internet
IT Services/Consulting
Areas of Expertise (6)
Scaling Web Sites
Making Web Sites High Performance
Mobile
Leading Technology Teams
Node.Js
Internet
Education (1)
University of Sunderland: 1st Class with Honours, Computer Science 2005
Software Engineer of Class 2005
Affiliations (3)
- British Computer Society
- Change.org
- Open Rights Group
Links (2)
Testimonials (3)
Peter Svensson, Organizer | Swedish Web Developer Conference
Tom is warm, humoristic and welcoming. Combined with his technical chops knowing the in and out if Internet protocols, JavaScript, databases and scaling services, he's a steal at any price :) I was happy to be able to lure him to speak at one of my conferences, where he very clearly gave one of the funniest and most engaging talks on avoiding the hidden pitfalls in mobile apps.
Malte Ubl, Curator | JSConf.eu
I've seen Tom speak at several tech conferences and subsequently invited him to be a speaker at JSConf.eu twice. It has always been a pleasure to have him. His talks have always contained deep and original technical insights while also being fun and entertaining.
Er Galvão Abbott, Director of Content | PHP Conference Brazil
Tom is a great professional, very dedicated and committed to his goals. Tom spoke at PHP Conference Brazil '09, quickly captivating the audience and demonstrating a great deal of knowledge. He's a great person and easy to get along with. I'm proud of having met him and I wish I can work with him soon.
Event Appearances (14)
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JSConf US 2011 Portland, USA
2011-05-03
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Web 2.0 Expo 2011 San Francisco, USA
2011-03-29
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Dyncon 2011 Stockholm, Sweden
2011-03-12
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Node.js Camp San Francisco, USA
2010-12-14
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Web Directions South 2011 Sydney, Australia
2011-10-14
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CloudStock San Francisco, USA
2010-12-06
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Future of Web Apps London 2011 London, UK
2011-10-03
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YUIConf 2010 Sunnyvale, USA
2010-11-09
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Surge 2011 Baltimore, USA
2011-09-30
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Web Directions South 2010 Sydney, Australia
2010-10-14
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Surge 2011 Baltimore, USA
2011-09-28
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OSCON 2011 Portland, USA
2011-07-26
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@media 2011 London, UK
2011-03-27
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Falsy Values Warsaw, Poland
2011-05-26
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