Key Accomplishments

  • Built and shipped a next-generation social media platform from zero to production
  • Built engineering organizations from scratch: hiring, mentorship, culture, and processes
  • 90%+ improvement in page load speed across critical Apple Pay production infrastructure
  • Scaled e-commerce checkout, analytics, and API from thousands to millions of transactions

Professional Projects

RemiliaNET

At Remilia Corporation, I stood up and led engineering for RemiliaNET, a next-generation social platform — identity, global chat, media, and realtime activity — from zero to production.

Built with Go, React, Vite, Keycloak, Caddy, and Docker

Highlighted Work

  • High-throughput JSON APIs and analytics pipelines, scaled from thousands to millions of e-commerce transactions
  • Apple Pay production infrastructure with a 90%+ page-load improvement
  • Identity-keyed decentralized peer-to-peer networks: mesh connectivity over Urbit Azimuth
  • Checkout, exchange, and storefront self-customization flows
  • Embeddable Intercom-style storefront JavaScript widgets
  • Automated transactional email and financial reporting

Urbit Bridge

In 2021, the Urbit project extended it's blockchain-based identity system to use L2 transactions.

I worked with the team at Tlon as a key contributor to Bridge, the identity management app.

Highlights from this ambitious project include an all new user activation flow, a complete UX and UI redesign, WalletConnect integration, and a 200x reduction in cost for generating new invites.

Built with React and Indigo

Drinkies Rewards

To grow it's new alcohol delivery service in SE Asia, Heineken recognized the need to increase customer loyalty. Together with Goodwerk we collaborated to design, develop, and deploy a rewards program for frequent shoppers, Drinkies Rewards.

Built with Rails, Docker, PostgreSQL, Heroku, and Doorkeeper

Personal Projects

remiterm

A terminal client for RemiliaNET global chat. Sign in with OAuth, then chat from the TUI: replies and reply chains, in-terminal still preview, profiles, and themes. Install via Homebrew or GitHub Releases.

brew install tomholford/tap/remiterm

Built with Go and Bubble Tea

%hodl

A digital asset portfolio for Urbit.

Built with React and Hoon

azimuth

A Go client for Urbit Azimuth / Ecliptic (L1) and the L2 roller.

go get github.com/tomholford/azimuth

Built with Go

caddy-doorman

A batteries-included Caddy Docker image with defender, rate limiting, and DNS-01 (Cloudflare / Namecheap).

docker pull ghcr.io/tomholford/caddy-doorman:latest

Built with Caddy and Docker

gonetia

A Go CLI for generating the list of planet names issuable from an Urbit star.

brew install tomholford/tap/gonetia

Built with Go

tako.social (sunset)

A social media management platform that allowed users to create content, share it via one or more social media accounts, and analyze engagement across platforms.

Built with Rails, Docker, PostgreSQL, the Twitter Labs API, Facebook Graph API, and Google Cloud

media-downloader

A Deno CLI for scraping web pages and downloading linked media files.

Built with Deno

twitter-labs-api

A Ruby gem implementing a client for Twitter's (now retired) Labs API.

Built with Ruby

Friends Dashboard

A dashboard for viewing local time, current and forecast weather, and news headlines for international cities.

Built with React, Mobx, OpenWeatherMap, Frappe Charts, and Google Cloud