Ben Thomas
Platform Ecosystem Director
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Thomas is a Senior Solutions Engineer at GitHub with nine years of cross-disciplinary software and systems experience, specializing in helping enterprises adopt scalable developer workflows. He blends full‑stack engineering chops (C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python) with reliability and DevOps experience from roles at Pandora, AT&T, and The Home Depot to translate complex technical needs into practical, secure solutions. At GitHub he has progressed through corporate, mid‑market, and enterprise solutions roles, pairing customer-facing strategy with hands-on engineering. An independent game developer and contributor to projects like a VRChat face‑tracking integration, he brings a playful curiosity that often surfaces as creative integrations and performance optimizations. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and trained in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, he combines systems thinking with a developer-first empathy for shipping reliable software.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
eye-tracking10
sdk10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
unity3d8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
benaclejames/VRCFaceTracking
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
OSC App to allow VRChat avatars to interact with eye and facial tracking hardware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 56 reviews, 292 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to optimizing and integrating facial and eye tracking features within the VRChat environment. Their work involved modifications to existing code, including the integration of SRanipal SDK for eye and facial tracking. They focused on optimizing parameter handling and synchronization of head and eye-tracking data.
hardwarevrchateyetrackingfacetrackingvrcft
VRCFaceTracking/docs
Mar 2023 - Feb 2026
Documentation for VRCFaceTracking
Contributions:37 reviews, 20 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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