My name is Thomas (also known as @dukefirehawk). I have been programming for a long time, mostly in C, Perl, Java, PHP, Javascript, Python and then Dart for startup to enterprise companies building multi-tenant web based software products and services.

At my current position, I oversee software development teams building proprietary software in the data security field for protecting data in the enterprise space. In my spare time, I am a core maintainer of Angel3 Framework and ngcomponents. Mostly involved in refactoring them in order to keep pace with the Dart SDK releases.

I am a big fan of free and open-source (FOSS). Over the course of my career, I grew up using many open source software and libraries to build software systems for customers. Hence decided to venture into the projects that I liked as a way of contributing back to the community knowing fully well that it involves a huge amount of work.

The sponsorship is very important to me as it serves as an indicator that someone truly like what I am working on and it gives a lot of encouragement to continue putting efforts into refining the software to make them better for more people to use.