Summary
Tom Nolan is an engineering manager with 10 years of experience building and leading teams that design, deploy, and operate B2B and B2C cloud applications. He blends hands-on engineering—favoring readable, maintainable code—with people leadership, mentorship, and instructional experience from prior roles as a technology instructor and instructional designer. Tom has led cross-functional scrum teams, driven migrations between cloud providers, implemented CI/CD and distributed tracing for production visibility, and standardized engineering practices via playbooks. He’s comfortable across the stack, having built private package registries, component libraries, and complex front-end features as well as backend automation. Now at Trunk Tools he’s applying that craft to AI-driven automation in the construction industry, translating domain complexity into developer-friendly platforms. Colleagues rely on him not just for delivery but for thoughtful coaching and a track record of turning operational pain points into durable engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Technology and Engineering Education, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Technology and Engineering Education at Illinois State University
Spanish, English