David Thames
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Thames is a software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack cloud systems, currently contributing to Google’s Cloud Billing Platform after roles at TikTok, earlier Google teams, and AWS. He blends product-minded engineering with HCI and ML research experience from Virginia Tech, where he worked on crowdsourced computer vision for historical photos and gesture-driven VR interfaces. A pragmatic innovator, David has prototyped solutions for MITRE and led a joint mobile web archiving research project with Old Dominion University, showing his knack for applied research-to-product translation. He co-founded a startup early in his career and has shipped websites and tools for small businesses and competitions, reflecting entrepreneurial initiative alongside enterprise scale work. Active in education and diversity efforts, he’s built an open-source gamified math site for high schoolers and volunteers with programs like Rainier Scholars and ngGirls. Based in Seattle, he combines cloud platform expertise with a user-centered design sensibility that helps bridge complex backend systems to real user outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Jamestown High SchoolVirginia TechAerospace, Aerospace at Virginia Aerospace and Technology ScholarsComputer Science, Computer Science at Governor's School for Science and Technology
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (2)
memento4
react2
Github contributions (5)
DavidCThames/MobileMink-WebService
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
mementoweb-servicereact
dszero/Project2
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:64 pushes in 6 days
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