Tom is an advocate to bring best practices to the government and military. He is currently focused on empowering developers in government who want to participate in, contribute to, and collaborate with the open source community. Along with a team at DDS, he has worked on a strategy to allow federal employees to reuse standard open source licenses for their work. As a developer he has worked on wide ranging topics from neural networks to functional programming and declarative configuration management. Tom is an active duty Marine and served overseas as a Naval Flight Officer as well as a cyberspace operations planner.