Tom Hughes-Croucher

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.