Drew Thompson
Staff Product Engineer at Segment
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDrew Thompson is a Staff Product Engineer in San Francisco with 8+ years building and shipping full‑stack, enterprise-grade systems at Segment and earlier startups. He specializes in scaling infrastructure and APIs for regulatory and global deployments, notably shipping an EU data‑residency production stack in a single day and splitting a monolithic product into Profiles and Engage with zero incidents. Drew blends deep technical execution—rewriting critical services from Go to TypeScript and architecting PII masking at scale—with product sensibility, improving deployment efficiency and developer onboarding. He’s led cross-functional teams of up to eight engineers to deliver 100% of projects on time while cutting authz SEVs by 95%. Comfortable operating where product, compliance, and developer experience intersect, he moves quickly from uncertainty to repeatable, auditable delivery. His background in engineering physics and a minor in computer science underpins a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to complex systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at University of the Pacific
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Github Skills (46)
javascript10
npm10
agora10
txt10
npm-package10
component-library10
expansion10
move10
editing10
numeric10
segment10
ui-components9
webrtc9
ui-framework9
sdk9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
drew-thompson/ngx-agora
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Angular wrapper for the Agora.io video conferencing web SDK
Contributions:49 commits, 20 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 7 months
agoraioweb-conferencingweb-sdkwebrtcsdk
drew-thompson/angular-video
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
Agora.io RTC starter using the ngx-agora library.
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
agoraiortcvideo-conferencingwebrtcngx
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