Thomas Davis
Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer
Summary
Full stack developer with 15+ years building products from the ground up at startups and open source. Recently focused on generative AI — building LLM-powered applications with Vercel AI SDK, designing MCP tool ecosystems, and creating AI agent infrastructure. Product-minded engineer who ships fast and prioritizes user feedback.
Skills
AI & LLMs
AdvancedFrontend
SeniorBackend
SeniorCloud & DevOps
SeniorArchitecture & Tooling
SeniorLow-Level & GPU
IntermediateWork
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Misc CompaniesProduct Engineer (AI Focus)2020-05-05 - present
- - Vercel AI SDK / OpenAI / Anthropic
- - Structured outputs, embeddings, vector search
- - MCP servers and AI agent infrastructure
- - GCP / Kubernetes / Cloud Infrastructure
- - React / Next.js / TypeScript
- - Node.js / PostgreSQL / Supabase
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TokenizedSenior Javascript Developer2020-05-05 - 2021-05-05
- - React
- - Redux
- - SCSS
- - Product
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BlockbidSenior Javascript Developer2018-03-01 - 2020-01-01
- - 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.
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ListiumDeveloper2016-01-01 - 2018-01-01
- - 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
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Electronic Frontier FoundationDeveloper2014-04-01 - 2016-01-01
- - Developed new tools for contacting congress
- - Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about issues
- - Lots of social networking integration
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EarbitsCTO2013-03-08 - 2015-01-09
- - 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
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JSON ResumeFounder2014-04-01 - present
- - This resume is built with JSON Resume
- - Over 5000 stars on Github
- - Community developed themes
- - Tens of thousands of users
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Taskforce.isDeveloper2013-06-01 - 2016-01-01
- - Generated 37,000,000 banner views
- - 100, 000 phone calls to congress
- - 500, 000 emails
- - 250, 000 signatures
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Drone HireCo-Founder2013-01-01 - present
- - The site and blog combined have managed to receive over 200,000 visitors in 2014.
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BackboneTutorials.comFounder2011-01-01 - 2014-01-01
- - Over two million unique visitors a year
- - 25,000+ ebook downloads
- - 300,000+ Youtube views
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EphoxFront-end Developer2011-01-01 - 2012-06-01
Education
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The University of QueenslandBachelors in Software Engineering (incomplete)2008-02-12 - 2009-12-12
Projects
Community-driven open source standard for resumes in JSON format. Recently added AI-powered job matching using vector embeddings, GPT-powered job parsing, and a Claude Code skill for interactive job hunting.
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.
Self-evolving AI Discord bot with 80+ specialized tools, multi-database architecture, and autonomous development capabilities. Built with Vercel AI SDK, Discord.js, and Next.js.
From-scratch GPT training and inference system built in TypeScript with a hand-written C Vulkan addon for GPU compute. No PyTorch or TensorFlow — custom tensor backend, autograd, tokenizers, training loop, and inference engine.
The Tool Package Manager for AI Agents. An open-source registry and execution platform that automatically discovers, validates, and runs npm packages as AI agent tools via MCP, SDK, or CLI.
AI coding validator with semantic guardrails. A development-time validator that lets AI agents write code freely while maintaining consistency through domain semantics and multi-layer validation.
Open-source Indigenous language dictionary platform supporting advanced search, real-time AI translation, and server-side rendering. Built with Next.js and Turborepo.