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Thomas Davis

Thomas Davis

Web Developer


Background


About

About

I'm a full stack web developer who can build apps from the ground up. I've worked mostly at startups so I am used to wearing many hats. I am a very product focused developer who prioritizes user feedback first and foremost. I'm generally very flexible when investigating new roles.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Product Engineer, Misc Companies

    May, 2020 - Present

    Over the past several years, I've worked at various roles and companies. Mostly early stage startups, doing full stack product development.

    • React / Next

    • Node / Laravel

    • LLM's

    • Diagrams / Canvas

  • Senior Javascript Developer, Tokenized

    May, 2020 - May, 20211 year

    Tokenized is a Bitcoin wallet for issuing, managing and trading digital tokens. I built out the front end which was packaged as an electron app. It was a difficult frontend to build because we store the users keys locally and used them to sign transactions and contracts.

    • React

    • Redux

    • SCSS

    • Product

  • Senior Javascript Developer, Blockbid

    Mar, 2018 - Jan, 20201 year 10 months

    Blockbid is an Australian crypto currency exchange. I started off on the frontend but eventually became lead tech and worked on every moving piece of the exchange. I really enjoyed working with liquidity providers and connecting their platforms to help us achieve liquid markets.

    • React, Apollo, Styled Components

    • Node.js / Rails

    • Docker / Heroku / GCP

    • Used Figma for design and UX work

    • Optimizing markets with tens of millions of rows using SQL.

  • Developer, Listium

    Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20182 years

    Built a very large and complex React / Redux application. It works on all platforms and has IOS/Android builds due to it being a PWA. (wrapped it in React Native though only implementing a WebView)

    • Worked with Postgres, Redis and Dynamodb for storage.

    • Hosted on a mixture of Heroku Apps and EC2 servers.

    • Caching by Fastly and Cloudflare

    • Hybrid app supported on all platforms

  • Developer, Electronic Frontier Foundation

    Apr, 2014 - Jan, 20161 year 9 months

    Hired to take EFF's campaigning to the next level by building an action centre in Ruby on Rails. The action centre is built around some large open source tools that lower the barrier to entry when contacting congress.

    • Developed new tools for contacting congress

    • Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about issues

    • Lots of social networking integration

  • CTO, Earbits

    Mar, 2013 - Jan, 20151 year 10 months

    Started off as a front end developer but took on the role of CTO in early 2013. The application frontend is built with Javascript and organized as a single page application that talks to a collection of Rails web servers which are connected to MongoDB.

    • Managed a small team of developers and designers

    • Built the entire frontend application with Backbone.js

    • Transferred all of the infrastructure from Heroku to AWS

  • Founder, JSON Resume

    Apr, 2014 - Present

    JSON Resume is a community driven open source initiative to create a JSON based standard for resumes. There is no reason why there can't be a common standard for writing a resume that can be extended with an ecosystem of open source tools.

    • This resume is built with JSON Resume

    • Over 3000 stars on Github

    • Community developed themes

    • Tens of thousands of users

  • Developer, Taskforce.is

    Jun, 2013 - Jan, 20162 years 7 months

    Worked on many politically charged campaigns against mass surveillance. Not only technically challenging work but also a lot of networking and getting my hands dirty with politics. Our biggest project was "TheDayWeFightBack"..

    • Generated 37,000,000 banner views

    • 100, 000 phone calls to congress

    • 500, 000 emails

    • 250, 000 signatures

  • Co-Founder, Drone Hire

    Jan, 2013 - Present

    An international directory of civilian drone / UAV operators for hire. Services include aerial photography, aerial video, mapping, surveying, precision agriculture, real estate photography, remote inspections and infrared imaging. Our plan is to be the place to go when looking for UAV/Drone services. The website is built in Backbone.js and API is built with Node.js and Postgres.

    • The site and blog combined have managed to receive over 200,000 visitors in 2014.

  • Founder, BackboneTutorials.com

    Jan, 2011 - Jan, 20143 years

    I write tutorials and blog post regarding the popular Javascript framework Backbone.js. The tutorials cover a range of topics regarding front end development aimed at beginners, experts and anyone in between.

    • Over two million unique visitors a year

    • 25,000+ ebook downloads

    • 300,000+ Youtube views

  • Front-end Developer, Ephox

    Jan, 2011 - Jun, 20121 year 5 months

    Ephox is a worldwide company who is heavily involved with the development of TinyMce and enterprise editors. My primary role included building front-end widgets and applications. Worked on a major product using Backbone.js as a base. Heavily involved in UI/UX design and wire-framing. Also spend a lot of time designing API specifications and documentation.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • JSON Resume

    Apr, 2014 - Present

    JSON Resume is a community driven open source initiative to create a JSON based standard for resumes. There is no reason why there can't be a common standard for writing a resume that can be extended with an ecosystem of open source tools.

    • This resume is built with JSON Resume

    • Over 3000 stars on Github

    • Community developed themes

    • Tens of thousands of users

  • Cdnjs

    Jan, 2011 - Present

    Following Google's CDN for jQuery, we decided to start a CDN for the less popular Javascript frameworks. The CDN is community moderated and open source on GitHub. We secured a partnership with Cloudflare who now supports the infrastructure.

    • Millions of sites use the CDN in production

    • Larger market share than Yahoo's, Microsoft's and Google's javascript content distribution networks

    • We serve hundreds of billions request a month

    • Contains over 3000 popular Javascript libraries

    • Millions of developers visit the site per year

Skills

Skills

  • Frontend

    HTML / JSX

    SCSS / CSS / BEM / Styled Components

    Javascript / Typescript

    React / Next

    Redux / Apollo

  • Backend

    Node

    Ruby

    Python

    Postgres

    Redis

    Serverless

  • Devops

    AWS

    G Cloud

    Heroku

    Caching

Education

Education

  • Software Engineering (incomplete), Bachelors, The University of Queensland

    Feb, 2008 - Dec, 2009

  • Computer Science, Bachelor, University of Technology

    Sep, 2010 - Jun, 2014

    CS101 - Introduction to Computer Science

    CS201 - Data Structures and Algorithms

    CS301 - Operating Systems

Certificates

Certificates

Awards

Awards

  • Defender of the Internet , Fight For The Future

    Awarded on: Oct 02, 2014

    For my work against mass surveillance and building out civic tools for digital democracy.

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Contributor, Open Source Project

    Jan, 2016 - Present

    Contributing to open source projects to improve software quality.

    • Fixed critical bugs and added new features.

    • Mentored new contributors.

Publications

Publications

Interests

Interests

  • Gardening

    Lazy Gardening
  • Music

    GuitarSingingDancing
  • Books

    ReadingWritingHistory
  • Open Source

    All of it
References

References

  • Joey Flores, Co-founder and CEO of Earbits, Inc.

    Thomas was hired as a lead developer and, upon the leaving of our co-founder took over as CTO of Earbits. Thomas is, hands down, one of those A Players you hear of companies dying to hire. He is incredibly smart, not just at code but about everything from classical music to Chinese language and culture. Thomas is great to work with and, as a well established contributor to open source projects and several successful ventures, commands the respect of engineers at all levels. I would suggest doing anything you can to have him on your team.

  • Yotam Rosenbaum, SVP of Operations, Earbits, Inc.

    I've had the great pleasure of working with Thomas for the past three years at Earbits, and on a few side projects. Two years ago our CTO left on a moment's notice, Thomas saved our company by quickly stepping up to fill this role. He has been with our company through thick and thin and made serious personal sacrifices in order to help the company during tough times. He is a phenomenal hacker and a true team player. Highly recommended!

  • Ryan Kirkman, Senior Software Engineer at Nerdwallet

    Thomas is an extremely talented engineer with a very broad range of skills and experience. From being a thought leader in the front-end community via backbonetutorials.com and cdnjs.com, to designing and implementing the API for cdnjs.com, working with Thomas has been fantastic learning experience. Thomas is truly a full stack develop, and his work output is incredible. If there is any opportunity to work with Thomas, I take it. He is the definition of an A player.

  • Greg Davis

    On Thomas Davis... Hire this guy. Do not be fooled. Incredibly capable and fast. Plays well with others. Unbelievable at front-end work end programming but that is just the start. Visionary. Hire him before I do.