About Tom Fakes

This is the blog of Tom Fakes, a software developer and entrepreneur from Kirkland, WA. He is currently taking some time off to travel, get fit and decide on the next thing to build.

Tom was a co-founder and Chief Engineer for Offbeat Creations, Inc, a developer of social games founded in 2008. Offbeat Creations was acquired by Playdom Inc in February of 2010. Playdom was subsequently acquired by The Walt Disney Company in August of 2010.

Prior to starting Offbeat Creations, Tom worked in senior development roles at 21st Century Music and Loudeye Corp after leaving Microsoft in 2004.

At Microsoft, Tom worked in various groups. He started in the Exchange group in 1994, developing MAPI, the API used by Outlook today. He also worked on the Offline Store system still in use by the Outlook product. Tom also spent some time building the IE and Windows Media Player products, before finishing his Microsoft career building a security system that shipped in the Windows Vista product.