Thomas Watson

Bio

Thomas Watson is a computer programmer, public speaker, and open source hacker. He works with Node.js Security at Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash. Thomas has published hundreds of Node modules and mad science projects, he is a Node.js Core member, and a part of the Node.js Security Team at the OpenJS Foundation.

Featured Projects

• AirplaneJS — 📡✈️ App that picks up ADS-B radio signals from airplanes and plots them in real time on a map in your browser
• Monster Drift — 📻🏎 Drive a radio controlled car with Node.js and HackRF
• IPP Printer — An IPP printer written in Node.js
• bcc — An IPP tool to Man-in-the-Middle all traffic to a local printer
• Bonjour — A Bonjour/Zeroconf protocol implementation in JavaScript
• Volkswagen — 🙈 Volkswagen detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass
• Dependency.land — An npm package dependents search engine
• Awesome Computer History — An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore
• ArcticJS — A small JavaScript and mad science conference in the arctic circle

Keep up with new projects by following me on GitHub.

Featured Talks

dotJS 2017: Getting Data From The Sky

NodeConf Barcelona 2017: Build Your Own JavaScript Powered Radio

HolyJS Moscow 2016: Debugging Node.js in Production

Node.js Interactive Europe 2016: Tracing & instrumentation in Node.js

AtTheFrontend 2016: These go to eleven

SquatConf 2016: How to intercept your boss' print jobs

See more talks on GitHub.