Tom Lewis

Product-minded, front-end leaning, full-stack engineer with over 15 years of experience building scalable applications, shaping product strategy, and leading multidisciplinary teams, I am passionate about discovering and understanding core problems and innovating solutions.

Recent Work

Starling Data

Next Generation Forms

Product and UI/UX Leadership

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Building great software is about understanding

Great design isn't just aesthetics or code. It starts with how people work, collaborate, and make decisions in real workflows.

Understand People

Start with context and constraints so solutions match real user behavior, not assumptions.

Design for Flow

Reduce friction by making complex interactions feel familiar, readable, and predictable.

Build for Change

Architect systems that are scalable and maintainable as product needs evolve.

DiscoveryPrototypingDesign SystemsAccessibility

How I Can Help

Today's Problems

Teams are expected to ship faster, design better experiences, and align product, design, and engineering at the same time.

I Can Help You By

Turning complexity into clear product direction, designing practical UI patterns, and building front-end systems that are scalable, accessible, and maintainable.

My Current Mission

Helping teams build software that feels intuitive to people and sustainable for the teams who maintain it.

My Journey

Working across design and development taught me that the best products come from understanding how people actually work. Keep scrolling to learn more.

Digital Harbor

‘Form Designer’ Team Lead, Product Team Lead, Full Stack Developer

2020 - 2026

Helped shape Social Forms into a collaborative, next-generation form platform by leading across product, UX, and engineering.

Led product, design, and engineering for Social Forms, an enterprise form-building platform focused on solving the frustrations of multi-user forms with complex workflows.
Developed an Assistive UI system for contextual help/dialog including a performant custom animation engine (RAF techniques) reducing rendering lag by 30%.
Built Social Autofill, a feature leveraging LLM embeddings for intelligent form completion; drove adoption from near 0% to 100% of form designers.
Architected DesignKit, a theming and template system that changed how teams approached forms — from utilitarian defaults to considered, brand-forward designs.
Led adoption of a unified dev/QA testing process built on Playwright and AI-assisted test generation, increasing e2e test coverage by 50% and boosting shipping confidence.
Established Storybook and a component system strategy to align design and engineering, including automated story generation workflows.

Angular
Nest.js
NgRx
Playwright
Design Systems
Product Leadership

Ricochet

Senior Programmer to Solution Architect

2014 - 2019

Progressed from Junior Developer to Senior Developer to Solution Architect, leading web, app, and interactive product delivery for clients with complex technical and UX requirements.

Led development of web applications and digital products for clients including Nike, Intel, Georgia Pacific, and Toyota, providing technical direction, architecture, and implementation strategy.
Built a 3D interactive web app for a Rohde & Schwarz electronics test chamber using JavaScript, Web Components, Webpack, and the Sketchfab API.
Developed prototypes and advised on UX for a legal document management application for a major semiconductor manufacturer.
Architected and built a Learning Management System with a Ruby on Rails API and Angular front end.
Created a proof-of-concept and led development for an AR app for a Georgia Pacific trade show using Unity, C#, 3D modeling, and Xcode/TestFlight.

Web Apps
Interactive 3D
AR Prototyping
Rails + Angular
Accessibility
Architecture

Freelance

Website Design and Development

2007 - 2014

Built and shipped websites and e-commerce experiences while helping clients turn business goals into practical, user-friendly products.

Delivered projects across entertainment, finance, and e-commerce for clients including the Writers Guild of America, Fox Studios, and Kopion Asset Management.
Managed full project lifecycle from client communication and requirements gathering through design, development, and launch.

WordPress
WooCommerce
OpenCart
UI/UX
Client strategy
Estimation

Art & Design

As a kid, I was torn between two worlds-sketching characters and designing imaginary cities one day, taking apart gadgets to see how they worked the next. When it came time for college, I chose engineering, thinking it the practical and responsible path. But the pull of art was too strong, and I switched to Art and Design, developing my craft in traditional media like drawing and painting yet often gravitated towards highly technical areas like animation, motion graphics, synthesizers, and interactive installations.