Tom Hughes-Croucher

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Tom Hughes-Croucher is a British Internet programmer, entrepreneur, author, and public speaker. [1] He's worked for and with numerous well known brands, including Walmart, Yahoo!, NASA, MySpace, Joyent, Tesco, Three Telecom, and UK Channel 4. He has been the acting Chief Technology Officer for Change.org since November 2012.

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Early life

Tom Hughes-Croucher was born on 29 October 1981 to David Croucher and Hazel Croucher. He grew up in Worksop, UK.

Education and career

Croucher attended Worksop College in north Nottinghamshire before earning his Bachelor of Science in 2005 from the University of Sunderland and was ranked first in his class. [2] After Graduating from the University of Sunderland he joined Yahoo as a front end engineer. In 2009 he joined Joyent as a Technical Evanglist.

Publications

Tom coauthored "Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript," with Mike Wilson. [3]

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References

  1. "Speaker: Tom Hughes-Croucher: Velocity 2012 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 25 - 27, 2012, Santa Clara". Velocityconf.com. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  2. "Tom Hughes-Croucher | LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  3. Tom Hughes-Croucher, Mike Wilson. "Node: Up and Running - O'Reilly Media". Shop.oreilly.com. Retrieved 11 December 2013.