Tommy Bonderenka

Tommy grew up in Michigan in a small town called Carleton, near the Ohio border. After graduating high school in 2008, he worked at a factory for a few years before realizing he wanted to realize his childhood dream of being a software engineer. He enrolled in community college and, after acquiring an associate’s degree in computer science, moved to downtown Detroit to work for a small tech startup there. Fast forward to 2016 and that tech startup got accepted to a prestigious tech accelerator program in Kansas City, so Tommy packed up his whole life (including his pat cat, Little Dude) and moved to KC. While in KC, he met his partner, adopted 3 dogs (Louie, Lily, and Mila) and another cat (Leonard). These days you can find Tommy writing code in front of his computer, playing video games on various systems (or on his Japanese arcade cabinets in his basement), watching pro wrestling, or hanging with his family.