Consultant: Tomie

Connection and understanding.

Tomie brings a clear and daring voice to the Underjord team. They care for the big picture by sweating the details.

It is quite illuminating to know that Tomie spent the last decade doing project management and events. They were forging actual real-world events out of bureacrats, culture workers and artists. They are willing to put themselves forward into discomfort to get clarity on what something means, get enough explanation, remove vague ideas and handwaving. They do it for themselves and for the team. With this they are exceptionally capable at capturing the big picture and taking the larger perspective while they work away at the details.

Tomie’s colleagues specifically call out their daring approach and persistence. An ability to dive in, try something and really go for it. This is coupled with a knowledge not just to clear the ticket but to understand what was done, how it works and why it makes sense. And they share. Tomie makes sure that colleagues, coworkers, their current team, people in any circumstance know what is going and learn along with them. With a willingness to share both struggle and success they bring energy and encouragement.

Whether weaving together Elm types to achieve a clear solution to a complex problem, or following the thread through an Elixir application, Tomie has time and again shown a really good sense of following and figuring out code as well as sensing when something is not quite right.

Specific work

  • End-to-end implementation of several new tools (think geometries, line drawing) in a collaborative multiplayer whiteboard.
  • Troubleshoot several very complex and intricate collaborative multiplayer bugs.
  • Developed a solution to maintain data integrity for a complex data structure that needed to evolve over time.
  • Spearheaded and developed a manual testplan for a piece of software that was drifting away from known behavior.
  • Worked through the behavior of vintage_net_wifi and vintage_net_ethernet to enable work on adding support for new Nerves networking features.

Accolades & testimonials

"Tomie is amazing. How did you find them!?"
-Department lead at client, translated from swedish

"Tomie struck me as a creative person, who participates in very constructive ways. They take the time to really understand the problems and finds very nice ways to solve them. I was often surprised by how easy it was for Tomie to find neat ideas to build and reorganize ways for users to interact with the product - and reasoning around UX seems very natural to them. Tomie also proved to be a great facilitator for discussions articulated around tech, whether during sprint planning or when moving from a problem space into a solution space. They know how to leave room for everyone to contribute while at the same time bringing their own ideas in a way that makes the whole collaboration very pleasant. I would work with Tomie again any day of the week.
- Pierre Martin, Tech Lead

Primary tech

  • Elixir
  • Phoenix
  • Ecto
  • Nerves
  • Absinthe (GraphQL)

Accidental tech

  • Elm
  • Grafana
  • Fly.io