Tomas Becklin
Your mind is at peace when your body is in motion.
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- "Your mind is at peace when your body is in motion"
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"Exercise frees your mind"
- me"When in doubt, go for a long walk."
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"The only thing constant is change"
- Heraclitus"Not all those who wander are lost."- J.R.R Tolkien
"You can't connect dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."
- Steve Jobs
"I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself."
- D.H. Lawrence"Dont cry because its over. Smile that it happened."- Dr. Seuss"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."- Earl Nightingale“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. … The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”- Senaca
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. One who lives life fully is prepared to die at any time."
- Mark Twain
"I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not."
– Michael Pollan
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- 5 Minutes that changed my life. ( via Medium)
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- RT @chantellekinzel: Can Big Data Help Psychiatry Unravel the Complexity of Mental Illness? https://t.co/1ujkGmppO3 #science @NeRDlabPitt @…
- @EvangelineLilly We are going to do this tomorrow. :)
- "empathy through immersion" utilizing #VirtualReality for good causes. https://t.co/Olb5GV5qEL
- @chantellekinzel @yawcrc wow... exactly what we were taking about!
- @BreakingMuscle sorry to hear that! But @twitter = better :)
- RT @Get_Headspace: No rules. Just meditate. #Headspace
- The more emphatic you are the more careful you should be who you hang out with. https://t.co/RfxtlFzzjg
- RT @BernieSanders: "The American people are not looking to settle for inches. They're looking for real change." https://t.co/Af90NNZ2fa htt…
- @ev really?
- What an inspiration. A true warrior @TulsiGabbard supporting @BernieSanders #feelthebern https://t.co/UGY0sn1TQm
- Fascinating augmented reality product. Tempted to get the developer kit. #AugmentedReality https://t.co/dDnGbf2juf
- RT @siliconvikings: #gbgtech @volvocarsglobal - Having No Fatalities in Volvos by 2020 Will Require #AutonomousTech By @JMBooyah @Recode ht…
- RT @Snowden: Wow. Retired Army Colonel, and Colin Powell's Chief of Staff: https://t.co/eWL68urdda https://t.co/LL8fouh0dS
- @tdathletesedge love this feature! long over due. been using it during beta. :)
- Maybe a little extreme. :) But more squatting, standing and hanging is a great idea! cc @mobilitywod @standupkids https://t.co/TrSfm1MO0x
- And mine! 😊❤️🐺 #NationalPuppyDay https://t.co/aO5usZuHsr
- So good! Listen to Collected (Remastered) by Massive Attack on @AppleMusic. https://t.co/ATGYjJyLSq https://t.co/e06aoJumKh
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I love to start, build and scale companies and teams.
One of the first 10 engineers at MySpace. Helped scaled the company to +100 million users. While there I also started, built and managed the Interactive Media Team.
Founded zabbi, a social-local-mobile app. We raised a seed round from IdeaLab and hired top mobile and creative talent. Built a groundbreaking app that we premiered at the Launch conference in San Francisco.
As CTO/VP Engineering at SlingShot Labs and StackCommerce I tripled the size of the engineering teams. Successfully recruiting and retaining top talent in a very competitive market.
Experience- Jul 2014 - Apr 2015VP Product Development / Engineering / StackCommerce
Built a team of skilled engineers, product managers, and designers.
Drove and implemented the company vision.
Determined the long‐term architecture of the platform, scaled it and the team. - Feb 2014 - Jul 2014Technical Advisor / LivnGiv - Dine Like You Give A Damn.
LAMP Stack. AWS.
- Nov 2012 - May 2014Chief Technology Officer / Squabbler
Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Wowza Media Server, AWS, Heroku, Action Script 3
Architected and built front and backend of their real-time video recording solution, comments, video and related content feed. Hired engineers. Managed internal and external resources.
- Feb 2011 - Jun 2012Founder / zabbi
Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Heroku
Responsible for technology and product. Hired mobile engineer and designer. Built our platform and mobile API. Raised seed round from Idealab.
zabbi was a Social, Mobile, Local platform created as an iPhone app to socialize emotional data between users. The main goal was to introduce and capture a new data set. The main target audience were digital natives, generation z. - Jul 2010 - Jan 2011Open Source Platform Architect / Myspace
Brought in to evaluate an open source platform as an alternative to the existing .NET platform at Myspace.
- May 2008 - Jul 2010Chief Technology Officer / Slingshot Labs
Built and managed a team of +20 engineers across 4-5 products. Architected a service based infrastructure. Implemented the agile development method and setup tools to support it.
Slingshot Labs was a News Corp technology incubator. - Jul 2007 - May 2008Chief Technology Officer / NovaTunes Inc
LAMP Stack.
Built an application that helped artists to reach, engage and monetize their fans. Very similar to Bandcamp.com.
- Jan 2007 - Jul 2007Sr. Software Engineer / Userplane
ActionScript 3
Helped re-write an old Flash based Instant Message application. - Feb 2005 - Jan 2007Manager, Interactive Media / MySpace.com
C#, ColdFusion, ActionScript 3
One of the first 10 engineers. Helped scale MySpace to 100 million users. Built and managed the Interactive Media Team. Responsible for all media players on MySpace and the web services that supported them.
- Dec 2002 - Feb 2005Manager, Internet Services / Diamond Audio Technology
- May 2002 - Dec 2002Senior Coldfusion Developer / The Walt Disney Company
- Jan 2000 - May 2002Senior Web Developer / Gateway
Education-
1998 - 2000California State University-NorthridgeGraphic Design
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Interests:Entrepreneurship, technology, programming, meditation, spartan races, obstacle course races, electronic music, dj , produce music, snowboarding, books, workouts, outdoors and my dog.
