Thomas Paul Mann is the CEO and co-founder of Raycast, the London-based productivity platform that gives developers and knowledge workers a fast, extensible command center for apps, files, workflows, and AI. A software engineer by background, Thomas previously built products at Meta/Facebook, Audi, ProSieben, and the Fraunhofer Society before starting Raycast with Petr Nikolaev in 2020 to reduce context switching and help people stay in flow.
- PreviousSoftware Engineer, MetaPreviously worked at Meta/Facebook as a software engineer, including work on Spark AR.
- PreviousSoftware Engineer, AudiBuilt software products before founding Raycast.
- PreviousSoftware Engineer, ProSiebenSat.1Built software products before founding Raycast.
- PreviousSoftware / Research Experience, Fraunhofer SocietyBuilt products and worked in applied research before founding Raycast.
- 2012 – 2015MS, Computer ScienceFachhochschule Gelsenkirchen / Westphalian University of Applied Sciences.
- 2008 – 2012BE, Electrical and Electronics EngineeringTH Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences.
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Thomas brings direct founder-market fit from years building software products and experiencing the workflow friction Raycast solves. As a former Meta/Facebook engineer and hands-on product builder, he understands the developer and power-user audience, while Raycast’s extension ecosystem and community-led growth align with his background making tools for people who make things.