Tom on the Internet

About

Name
Thomas Steven

Email
tom@tomontheinternet.com

Location

St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

About an hour from Toronto


Links

GitHub

YouTube

LinkedIn


Family
Yes

Occupation

Software Developer

Full stack

Mostly web

Since 2017


Nationality
Canadian

Education

Master of Education (MEd)

University of Missouri

Bachelor of English Literature

Laurentian University


Text Editor
Neovim

Font
IBM Plex Mono

Colorscheme

Tokyo Night Moon

This site uses this palette.


Learning

Elixir and Phoenix

This site is a Phoenix site.


Spoken Languages

English  

Korean   

French   

Technologies I've used a fair bit

  • AWS
  • Angular
  • Bash
  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • Go
  • HTML
  • JSON
  • JavaScript
  • Laravel
  • Linux
  • MySQL
  • Neovim
  • PHP
  • React
  • SQL
  • Terraform
  • TypeScript

Selected Timeline

1982

  • Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

1984

  • Moved to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

2001

  • Enrolled in a computer science degree because I liked computers.

2002

  • Dropped/failed out of computer science degree without ever understanding what a funciton was.
  • Moved to West Africa for a year.

2003

  • Moved back to Canada.
  • Enrolled in an English literature degree.

2007

  • Completed English literature degree.
  • Moved to South Korea to teach English.

2010

  • Enrolled in a Masters of Education degree.

2012

  • Completed Masters of Education degree.
  • Obtained job as university English teacher.

2013

  • Got married.

2014

  • Moved to Toronto, Canada.
  • Got job in education.
  • Started self-teaching programming so I could quit job in education.

2017

  • Quit difficult job in education.
  • Obtained first programmer job at Humi HR.
  • Became a father.

2020

  • Bought a house in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

2021

  • Became a father again.

2024

  • Obtained second programmer job at NMBR Payroll.