Software developer and engineer Tom Keane is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and editor who creates custom products for companies. His expertise is in technology and startups, but he has written about anything from travel to politics for multiple publications. Before becoming a full-time freelancer, Tom spent over sixteen years as an editor and reporter at the Los Angeles Times.
Here, engineer Tom Keane won four Pulitzer Prizes. He is the author of “The Dream Is Alive: A Memoir,” which was an editor’s choice for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Los Angeles Public Library’s Annual Best Teen Reads. Tom holds a B.A. in English Literature from Emerson College and an M.A. in Creative Writing from UCLA, where he received the Fiction Editor of the Year award for his work with student writers at the University Press Scripps Howard Writer’s Award competition.
According to the software developer, one of the best ways to learn about what’s possible with Windows 10 is to understand the context of how it was created and where Microsoft is going next. Tom Keane adds that that context is changing because the industry is changing. Every few years, the tech sector experiences a massive change in how people use technology.
The first significant shift was from mainframes to PCs and workstations, which allowed companies like Microsoft to create software development tools that enabled anyone to build software that would run on any device. Tom Keane is leading and supervising every step of the process.
The next major shift focused on the cloud and mobile, which opened the door for businesses to innovate, create new apps and platforms, and tap into different markets. The shift from mainframes to workstations and then PCs was about power; the transition to cloud and mobile is about convenience. For Tom Keane, the significant change now is back to mobility, where services that were once accessed in “silos” are being brought together into one combined experience.