Drew Thomas
Principal Platform And Security Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDrew Thomas is a Principal Platform and Security Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack systems and modern DevOps workflows. He specializes in Elixir and Ruby/Rails backends, GraphQL/REST APIs, and React/TypeScript front-ends, and has repeatedly led greenfield services such as multiplayer systems for education games and authentication migrations. Comfortable in small, fast-moving teams, Drew combines technical leadership—mentoring squads and setting API/DevOps best practices—with deep implementation skills across platform and security concerns. He has a track record of turning legacy flows into maintainable, modern architectures and has worked across product, ops, and customer-facing prototyping since early startup days. Drew’s background in both product discovery and production stability gives him a pragmatic edge when balancing shipping speed with long-term reliability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Management Information Systems at Baylor University
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Github Skills (52)
sql-parser10
parser10
lexer10
converting10
sql9
command-line-utility9
rust9
monkey9
extensible9
encryption8
envelope8
big-data8
security8
data-security8
json7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CDThomas/ts-monkey
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
A TypeScript implementation and in-browser editor for the Monkey programming language.
Contributions:58 commits, 88 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 months
monkey-programming-languagebrowserbrowser-editorjavascriptmonkey
CDThomas/lox
Jun 2021 - Mar 2023
Python and C implementations of the Lox language
Contributions:22 PRs, 62 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 8 months
implementationspythondslloxlox-language
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