Connor Tumbleson
Director Of Engineering at Sourcetoad
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Connor Tumbleson is a Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience leading teams and shipping full-stack web and mobile solutions from Tampa, Florida. At Sourcetoad he progressed from Lead Software Engineer to Director, blending hands-on backend work in PHP/Laravel with mobile Android contributions and platform-level reliability improvements. A committed open-source contributor, he has improved documentation for CodeIgniter, enhanced the OpenAI PHP client, and added Android Bluetooth permission support to React Native—demonstrating attention to developer experience, tests, and cross-platform compatibility. His background in frontend AJAX, backend systems, and publishing platforms (Ghost) shows an ability to move between product-facing UX fixes and deep infrastructure concerns. Collectedly, he pairs engineering leadership with practical code contributions that reduce friction for other developers.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Blue Valley Center for Advance Professional StudiesBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Arkansas
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Github Skills (66)
mobile-development10
restructuredtext10
testing10
databases10
url-parsing10
javascript10
laravel-mix10
rs10
url-scheme10
laravel10
user-guide10
php-framework10
api10
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
openai-php/client
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
⚡️ OpenAI PHP is a supercharged community-maintained PHP API client that allows you to interact with OpenAI API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1 PR, 16 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Connor primarily contributed to the PHP client library for the OpenAI API, focusing on code quality and feature additions. They addressed linting failures, improved code style by using null checks and spacing, and added missing moderation enums. Furthermore, the user augmented the tests for omni vs legacy moderation and corrected the completion endpoint when logprobs were missing. These changes enhance the library's functionality, maintainability, and test coverage.
api-clientapicodexphpopenai-api
TryGhost/Ghost
May 2014 - Oct 2021
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Connor contributed to the Ghost publishing platform by addressing both frontend and backend aspects. They fixed bugs related to escaping meta titles and descriptions and implemented HTML rendering within notifications. The commits show modifications to both client-side (Handlebars templates) and server-side (JavaScript helpers and controllers) code, indicating a focus on improving user experience and resolving functional issues. The user also made a change to sort authors alphabetically within the post settings menu.
cmsmembershipspublishingnewslettersjavascript
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