Developer, designer,
and audio engineer.
I work with artists, labels, and small teams — building their web apps, designing their vinyl packaging, and engineering their records. Often for the same people, on the same project.
One person who's worked every side
of how music gets made and sold.
Development
Full-stack web & mobile — from artist platforms and e-commerce to warehouse systems and self-hosted infrastructure.
Design
Graphic design & physical product layout. Vinyl packaging, album art, and print production — prepared to survive real pre-press.
Audio
Recording, mixing, and mastering through Brighter Days Studios — including vinyl-ready masters and DDP delivery.
Selected work
I started writing code because I kept needing tools that didn't exist — so I learned to build them.
Before that, I spent years in the music industry — most notably as Associate Director of US Physical Supply Chain Operations at The Orchard (Sony Music), managing manufacturing, client-supplied products, and whatever else landed on my desk. Along the way I toured internationally as a musician, ran a record label (Brighter Days Records), and engineered records out of my own studio.
I've tracked, mixed, and mastered for indie artists, designed and produced vinyl packaging — including the 20th-anniversary RSD edition of the From Dusk Till Dawn soundtrack — and built the web platforms to sell and distribute all of it. That mix of creative and technical is the whole point: I can talk to the artist and ship the code.
How I can help
Web & App Development
Artists, labels & startups- Full-stack web apps (Next.js, React, Node, Python)
- Mobile apps (React Native & Expo)
- E-commerce & CMS (Sanity, headless)
- Backend & APIs (Supabase, PostgreSQL)
- Self-hosted infra (Docker, Cloudflare)
Design & Product
Anyone releasing physical media- Album art & cover design
- Vinyl packaging — jackets, inserts, disc art
- CD packaging — digipak, jewel, booklet
- Print production — posters, merch
- Pre-press — bleed, trim, color, PDF/X
Audio Engineering
Via Brighter Days Studios- Recording & tracking
- Mixing
- Mastering
- Vinyl-ready masters & DDP
- Book at brighterdaysstudios.com →
Let's build
something good.
If you're an artist, a label, a small business, or a startup that needs a partner who actually gets what you're building — I'd love to hear about it.
tom@hellocolello.comLong Island, New York