Alan Thomas
Founding Engineer at Residual
Loveland, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Thomas is a founding engineer and serial startup founder with 13 years building web and platform products from early consumer apps to infrastructure for secure automation. Based in Loveland, Colorado, he’s shipped UI and on‑prem stacks, led engineering teams through Series A growth, and contributed backend features to the well-regarded smallstep/certificates project for automated TLS/SSH certificate management. Pragmatic and hands-on, he moves between founding roles and senior staff engineering, orchestrating agent-based platforms and tackling messy org and product problems alike. Notably, he scaled an early Facebook app to millions of users and continues to blend product instincts with low-level systems work—plus a streak of dry humor about whether the AI agents work for him or the other way around.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Dropout, Computer Science, Dropout, Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas CityArchitecture, Architecture at Kent State University
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Github Skills (31)
json10
tls1210
acme10
tls1310
mtls10
certificate10
go10
libtls10
security-txt9
javascript9
jquery9
security9
apidoc9
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
smallstep/certificates
Sep 2019 - Aug 2021
🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on implementing features and functionality for the `step-ca` tool. Their contributions involved wiring up components for an onboarding flow, including connecting to an external service, handling configurations, and initializing the CA with specific settings. They refactored code, fixed linting errors, and addressed minor issues. The user also made minor adjustments to the command-line interface and configuration.
sshacme-serversecurecertificate-authoritysecurity-tools
alanctkc/passup.js
Jun 2013 - Apr 2017
Contributions:150 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 3 years 10 months
passwordspassword-generatorsecuritypassword-managerup-to-date
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