Tom Hughes-Croucher

http://twitter.com/sh1mmer

San Francisco, California

Node.js and High Performance Web expert

Areas of Expertise:

  • Node.js
  • High-performance Web Applications
  • JavaScript
  • Accessibility
  • Web Standards
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing
Tom Hughes-Croucher is the CTO at Change.org, the world's largest online petition site. Previously he ran Jetpacks for Dinosaurs, a consultancy specialising in Node.js and High Performance web sites. Jetpacks for Dinosaurs' clients include Walmart and MySpace. He also worked at Joyent as Chief Evangelist with the Node.js team and at Yahoo as a senior Technology Evangelist. In addition to publishing new research in computing, Tom has contributed to a number of Web standards for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). Over the course of his Tom has worked with many leading organisation and companies such as Walmart, Yahoo!, MySpace, Joyent, NASA, Tesco, Three telecom and UK Channel 4, and others.

Node: Up and Running Node: Up and Running
by Tom Hughes-Croucher , Mike Wilson
April 2012
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99

Tom Hughes-Croucher on Node Tom Hughes-Croucher on Node
by Tom Hughes-Croucher
March 2011
Video: $44.99

Webcast: Realtime Web Systems
February 24, 2011
Users expect sites to be fast. They expect them to be updated constantly and instantly. Advertisers expect their ads to capture the latest trends. New software systems are being built and open-sourced to help sites deal with this. In this Development...

Tom Hughes-Croucher