Tom Carden

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Electrifying everything for everyone at Rewiring America — opinions are my own. @ Rewiring America
Tom Carden's Location
Denver, Colorado, United States, United States
About Tom Carden

I'm a Design Technologist based in Denver, CO, and I’m the VP of Engineering at Rewiring America. We’re building tools to help American households #electrifyeverythingPreviously I led engineering for Square Financial Services (Square's de novo bank) to integrate with the Federal Reserve and build Square Savings.My early career focused on web-based mapping and visualization software to explore, explain, and interact with data. I'm now equally passionate about growing software engineering teams and helping to shape products and organizations.I enjoyed a number of roles at Square including hands-on engineering for Square Capital, where we offered fast funding and effortless payback to small businesses. I led teams on Square’s Point of Sale (iOS and Android payment processing), Square Dashboard (web and iOS sales reporting) and Onboarding (cross-platform identity verification and signup).In 2010 I co-founded Bloom Studio with Ben Cerveny and Jesper Andersen. The iOS music player Planetary we created with Robert Hodgin was acquired by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum as DIG001 – the first piece of software in the National Design collection.Previously I created interactive graphics, maps and data visualizations for Stamen Design in San Francisco and wrote passenger flow simulation software for YRM, a London-based architecture firm. I studied Artificial Intelligence with Mathematics at the University of Leeds, and Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation at University College London. I was an early participant in the Processing language and community and one of the first contributors to OpenStreetMap, a project that aims to create free maps of the world using GPS and aerial photography.

Tom Carden's Current Company Details
Rewiring America

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Electrifying everything for everyone at Rewiring America — opinions are my own.
Tom Carden Work Experience Details
  • Rewiring America
    Vp Of Engineering
    Rewiring America Jan 2024 - Present
    United States, Us
    Leading the software engineering efforts for Rewiring America, and interim lead for the Rewiring Capital team creating our first lending products as part of Power Forward Communities.
  • Rewiring America
    Head Of Engineering
    Rewiring America Dec 2022 - Jan 2024
    United States, Us
    Growing an in-house software team and building tools to help American households #electrifyeverything
  • Square
    Engineering Lead, Square Financial Services
    Square Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Built the first products and infrastructure for Square’s new bank. Oversaw our direct integration with the Federal Reserve to enable ACH for Square Loans and Square Savings. Defined and built Square Savings. Developed partnerships. Hired Product Managers. Grew the bank’s Engineering staff from 1 to 15. Documented technical standards, led the bank’s Technology Steering Committee, represented work to FDIC examiners. Served on Block’s Engineering Levels Working Group.
  • Square
    Software Engineer, Square Capital
    Square Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Back to hands-on engineering on Square Capital, working on extending loans to empower small businesses to grow.
  • Square
    Engineering Manager Of Managers, Point Of Sale Platform
    Square Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Oversaw creation and expansion of Point of Sale Platform, adapting our monolithic codebase to support many apps, SDKs and devices. Spent time directly managing the QA & Release team, where I managed vendors and expanded QA coverage through addition of new tooling and processes. Later, directly managed Mobile Developer Experience (iOS and Android Build & Release). Managed managers and hired and developed new managers throughout.
  • Square
    Engineering Manager Of Managers, Point Of Sale
    Square Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Managed managers across teams responsible for Square’s flagship Point of Sale iOS and Android apps, as well as Onboarding (account creation) and Employee Management (SaaS) teams. Team responsibilities included core payment processing UI, reader and printer interaction, software for Square’s Register and Terminal custom Android devices, and platform components such as build, CI and bug reporting.
  • Square
    Engineering Manager, Analytics & Reporting
    Square Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Expanded role from web front-end and iOS Dashboard reporting to also cover back-end APIs and data infrastructure. Full-stack team, activities ranged from operating HBase clusters, to Java/Ruby API design and implementation, to building UI for sales reporting features across all seller-facing products. Drove daily engagement through continuous improvement and enhancement of reporting capabilities. Ran incident response and postmortems for infrastructure outages.
  • Square
    Engineering Manager, Seller Operations
    Square Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    In addition to previous role, built a new team from scratch to run Square’s Employee Management SaaS product, transitioned ownership from launch team and handle post-launch tech debt and on-call issues.
  • Square
    Engineering Manager, Analytics & Reporting Dataviz
    Square Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Initially responsible for all sales reporting in Square’s web Dashboard, subsequently expanded scope to cover in-app and email reports, and again to launch Square’s iOS Dashboard app.
  • Square
    Visualization Engineer
    Square Oct 2012 - Aug 2014
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Built visualizations for Risk, Comms, and Discovery teams. Joined Square Market launch team to build Square’s first e-commerce offering. Contributed to rewrite of Square Dashboard including “Pulse” homepage task-force—building Square’s first buyer reports—as well as numerous D3.js charts and custom Ember.js UI components.
  • Bloom Studio Inc
    Cto, Co-Founder
    Bloom Studio Inc Jan 2011 - Oct 2012
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Our first app, Planetary, was a visual music player for the iPad that was downloaded over two million times and was later acquired by the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Our second app, Biologic, was a playful social network browser for viewing Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn updates. As co-founder and CTO I led technology efforts across web, mobile and server. Also wore an extensive array of hats including hiring manager, support representative, video producer, board member, contract negotiator, etc. Investors included O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, Betaworks and SV Angel.
  • Freelance
    Design Technologist
    Freelance Sep 2010 - Jan 2011
    Mapping, cartography and visualization for clients including MSNBC, Waze and Urban Mapping.
  • Stamen Design
    Designer/Coder
    Stamen Design Nov 2006 - Aug 2010
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    High profile interactive mapping and data visualisation work for clients including ACLU, BBC, CNET, CNN, California Academy of Sciences, Digg, Fandango, GeoCommons, Guardian, INDigital, LOCOG, MSNBC, MTV, Microsoft (Bing Maps), mySociety, NBC, National Maritime Museum, New York Times, Nokia, Quova, SFMOMA, SimpleGeo, Trulia, Twitter and Wikipedia.I also contributed to Stamen's internal projects such as our Crimespotting.org site and our open source mapping frameworks Modest Maps and Polymaps.
  • Yrm Architects
    It Product Developer
    Yrm Architects Aug 2002 - Oct 2006
    Developed Skywalker, a Java-based software package designed to simulate the movement of passengers through airports. Commissioned to use the software to guide decision making on a major airport project, and also used a wide variety of spreadsheet and database tools to process and analyse airline schedules as part of our terminal masterplanning work. Additionally, maintained the company website and intranet, including the development of a system to automate the administration of project expenses.
  • Bartlett School Of Graduate Studies, University College London
    Guest Lecturer
    Bartlett School Of Graduate Studies, University College London Sep 2004 - Aug 2006
    I gave occasional lectures on computer graphics programming, simulation and artificial intelligence to students on the MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation and I also maintained the course weblog, Computing for Emergent Architecture.
  • Informatics Research Institute, University Of Leeds
    Research Intern
    Informatics Research Institute, University Of Leeds Jun 2001 - Dec 2001
    I developed BEAST (Bio-inspired Evolutionary Agent Simulation Toolkit), a programming library for experimenting with control systems in simple robots. The software was written in OpenGL and C++ and was subsequently used in several undergraduate projects. The summer internship was a success and I was hired to continue work on BEAST part-time during my final year.

Tom Carden Skills

Interaction Design Data Visualization User Experience User Interface Design Javascript Maps Artificial Intelligence Information Design User Experience Design Information Architecture Cartography Processing Programming Mobile Applications Computer Graphics Data Analysis Opengl C++ User Interface Information Visualization Architecture Node.js Actionscript Creative Direction Ios Flash Ember.js Software Development Web Development Mobile Devices Management Hiring Interviewing Coaching Strategic Planning Supplier Negotiation Vendor Management Career Development Reorganisation Metrics Release Management Team Building Public Speaking Quality Assurance

Tom Carden Education Details

  • Ucl
    Ucl
    Imaging And Visualisation
  • University Of Leeds
    University Of Leeds
    Artificial Intelligence With Mathematics

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