Tom Norton
Engineering Leader
Building high-performing engineering teams and AI-powered products. Currently at ecoinvent, previously Plotly, Goldman Sachs.
Experience
ecoinvent
Engineering Lead, Frontend & Design
Co-lead engineering in a 35-person org, owning cross-team delivery, technical strategy, and build-vs-buy decisions across 5 product teams.
Scaled team from 0 to 10 in 12 months. Established engineering ladder and career framework, standardizing performance reviews and growth across the org.
Shipped AI-powered search and matching over 20,000+ environmental datasets, reducing material matching time from hours to minutes.
Plotly
Frontend Engineering Manager
Managed the frontend team for Dash Enterprise, a Kubernetes-based PaaS for data science applications.
Grew the team from 5 to 8 engineers while delivering key platform features.
Goldman Sachs
Software Engineer
Built real-time trading applications for the equity derivatives desk.
Delivered sub-second latency tools used daily by traders on the floor.
Previously
Side Projects
Personal apps and experiments from my earlier career as a designer & developer.
Pearly
#TalkToStrangers
A React Native app to help people make new friends, through random encounters. Pearly uses AI to determine whether users will have meaningful conversations with one another spontaneously, based on a set of ‘Talking Points’ that each user selects - topics they’d like to discuss.
I worked as Designer + Lead Developer for this project.
Still
Soothing messages for anxious people
An iOS and Android app to help soothe people suffering from anxiety and OCD with small messages and breathing excercises.
I designed and built this application from scratch using React Native and Figma.
Weathr
3D-rendered weather
A cross-platform weather application written using Electron and threeJS. Originally an experiment with bringing Web frameworks to the Desktop, This project shows the power of the Electron framework in shaping the next generation of native applications.
todo
Native to-do list
An open-source cross-platform to-do list application written using Electron and vanilla JS.
My first Electron app, this project was motivated by wanting to make quick to-do lists for Pull Requests on GitHub, with some handy automatic Markdown conversions at the click of a button.