My picture! #!/bin/tom is the (il)logical part of myself.

tom is my second name that my family, nearby friends and colleagues used to call me with.

tom is also my principal character in different self-made strips.
he stays the unknown hero hidden inside me.

i was born in tunisia. lived my childhood in kuweit and traveled a lot between middle-eastern countries.

i'm proudly a modern arab and muslim boy.

i love pop and rock music, drawing, reading and specially surfing on the net, cinema, cycling and travel.
i enjoy photography and i love capturing cool moments and compositions.

i spent 5 years as a lead developer in a tunisian telecom operator where i developed, deployed and integrated various web oriented systems and frameworks using various open-source tools and technologies.

i've been a senior R&D software engineer in an italian company and a team leader for 2 years. i was responsible of the web technologies development department and advisor on open source strategy.

actually, i'm a project manager in a well known french open source company where i'm responsible of managing the local web department and advising on the IT strategies and architectures.

i'm owner, too, of my own startup : blueMinds, where i work as an IT freelancer for designing and developing systems for many customers as well as offering a high-quality services, developed solutions, software architecture advisory and IT consulting.

i'm an open source evangelist, i'm a RHCE, a PHP expert, sharing my knowledges and helping the [tunisian] open-source community to grow up.
i got some publications and contributions in different open-source projects and i led in a couple of conferences and symposiums for various IT-related thematics.

i'm teaching, too, new technologies and web applications in a computer sciences institute.

come join me too on twitter, facebook and flickr.