User talk:Tommytcchan

Tommy is the CTO for VenueSpot.co, a 500startups batch 8 company. Tommy is a also polyglot software developer and agile practitioner who likes tinkering and breaking things. Tommy is the organizer at the Vancouver Test Automation Engineer's meetup group.

Tommy has given presentations ranging from Testing Restful Services with Groovy to Performance Testing with JMeter to An Introduction to KnockoutJS and Advanced Javascript.

Tommy believes having a sense of humour is important, not just to put a smile on people's faces, but rather humour is the ability to create novel connections across disparate ideas -- something that developers should be good at as they need to describe the abstract domains they work in with others using system-level metaphors.

Tommy have worked on a personal Node js app that monitors websites for a given interval. It uses ampq to create and consume messages, express and ejs to render templates, nodeio to scrape the results, and a mysql backend to store the data. All this, of course, is deployed on the cloud. Currently Tommy is working on VenueSpot, a marketplace whose aim is to take the pain away from organizing evens.