Tom Brehm

Resume

Here you can download my latest resume

If you made it here, it means you're looking for a person more than just a profile.

So I took a moment to write this totally biased autobiography.

Early years

Evering started around 1868 when I was a young boy during the Franco - Prussian war.

Ok,this is just a funny picture you can reuse in a team bonding event.

First experience

20 years old, I got my first job as a developer for hydraulic test benches. Every software written in C and machine was unique and spread from aeronautics to nuclear power plants. My boss and colleagues were real mentors, both caring and letting you run right into the wall. Did I break expensive sensors because of a stack overflow? Who knows.

Suites and travels

My next job was to develop and sell CRMs. I traveled a lot across France and Germany. From Monday to Friday, spoiler alert, I burned out.

This wasn't for me and I decided to try my real passion, the web.

Quit and try

I left my job and started as a freelancer. At the beginning, I was developing Wordpress websites and plugins. I even got some missions setting up the HTML for emailings (HTML 1.0).

Not an easy time but on a Sunday afternoon, I saw a tweet from an early stage startup, Unite Us.

Let's say it's been a 10 years collaboration. I've got the best mentors from the start and I followed their path. We went through all stages a company can know, pivoting, doubts, growth, layoffs, you name it. But we had a mission, a clear vision, connecting social and health in a way that didn’t exist.

I had my team of people I call friends. This trust and support gave me the chance to join the headquarters in NYC for 18 months. Back in Europe, my girlfriend had an opportunity to work in Graz - Austria. We spent a little over two years there and felt like it was time for something new. We started a life of digital nomads for about two more years with our van named Leopold and our cat Link. We traveled slowly across Europe from Sweden to Portugal, absorbing cultures, meeting people and the beauty of nature.

And now what?

I had the time and experience to define my values. I believe the right team with the right vision can change things for the better. This is why I’m here for (you are too), innovate, make art, create things that never existed before, solve problems we didn’t know they existed. Build software.

Side notes

• I love Lego™️, I code like I play, small bricks that are reusable and understandable.

  

• I am not a nerd. Maybe a geek, I need to understand how something works. I am just curious, I always ask “how” and mostly “why”

• This website does not use any cookies or tracking, I'll spare you the Accept Cookies part 😉. Nor does it use any third party library. It's just HTML and CSS.

10 years Kudoboard extract

On my 10 years anniversary at Unite Us, we had a virtual party to celebrate and there is a small extract of the Kudoboard my team made.

Contact

There are many ways, I'm pretty inactive but present on most of the social medias.

For work, contact me through linkedin.