Brian Leathem
Staff Software Engineer Senior Engineering Manager, Productivity Engineering at Thumbtack
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Leathem is a platform engineering leader with 15+ years building developer platforms and scaling the teams that run them, currently leading Productivity Engineering from San Jose. He blends hands-on architecture—designing federated GraphQL gateways, Backstage-based developer portals, and Cloud Development Environment strategies—with people leadership, growing organizations from 4 to 6 teams and securing cross-functional alignment. At Netflix he unified tooling for 2,000+ engineers via federated frontends and domain schemas; at Thumbtack he defined a developer productivity measurement program achieving 99.4% participation and drove 93% weekly adoption of AI-assisted coding tools. A long-time open-source contributor and technical architect (PatternFly v6 still active), he brings full-stack fluency from front-end refinements to JavaEE backend frameworks. He’s drawn to roles that let him pair deep technical craft—early work on PatternFly and JBoss quickstarts shows breadth—with measurable organizational impact.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Centennial SchoolMSc., Physics, MSc., Physics at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
jquery10
javaee10
css10
jsfl10
java10
servlet10
javas10
front-end-development10
jsf10
maven10
html10
cdi10
mobile-development9
jakartaee9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jboss-developer/jboss-eap-quickstarts
Dec 2011 - Jul 2013
The quickstarts demonstrate JBoss EAP, Jakarta EE 10 and a few additional technologies. They provide small, specific, working examples that can be used as a reference for your own project.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to multiple aspects of the JBoss EAP quickstarts, including both front-end and back-end components. They modified the helloworld-jsf quickstart by updating the README and RichBean class. They also refactored database manipulation in the kitchensink quickstart, implemented mobile support, and made changes to the REST service. These modifications demonstrate a broad understanding of the project's technologies.
jboss-eap
patternfly/patternfly-3
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
This repo contains the HTML, CSS, and JQuery for the PatternFly 3 project.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 110 commits, 75 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on refactoring and improving the PatternFly 3 project's front-end components. They moved JavaScript source files to a dedicated 'src' directory, updated unit tests, and implemented a jQuery-based `pfList` function with active class toggling and chevron direction control for list items. Furthermore, the user implemented keyboard listeners for toggling list rows and addressed the use of `{{site.baseurl}}` in test pages.
cssjquerypatternfly
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