Tom Gellatly is a freelance software developer living in Oakland, CA. He was employee #1 at Sidecar Technologies where he managed the mobile engineering team. Following Sidecar's acquisition by GM, Tom transitioned to leading the Mapping & Labeling infrastructure teams at Cruise Automation.
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