Elissa Thomas
Senior Web Developer at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElissa Thomas is a Senior Web Developer in San Francisco with a decade-long background blending full-stack engineering, public-health web platforms, and library/information science. She has spent the past several years building and supporting data-driven web applications at IHME, pairing Drupal and Python APIs with modern deployment tools like Docker and Jenkins to power public-facing and internal tools. Her career weaves nonprofit and government experience—delivering large-scale Drupal solutions, custom modules, and third-party integrations—together with hands-on RoR and scripting work from her time at UC Berkeley. An educator at heart, she has taught colleagues SQL and data tools and contributed algorithmic Python solutions on GitHub, showing both practical production skills and algorithmic rigor. With an MLS and a background in writing and computer science, she brings strengths in information architecture, clear communication, and translating complex data requirements into usable web experiences.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.L.S., Library & Information Science, M.L.S., Library & Information Science at University of MarylandB.A., Writing/English, minor in Computer Science, B.A., Writing/English, minor in Computer Science at Loyola University Maryland
Github Skills (13)
algorithm10
task-queue10
jms-queue10
data-structures10
algorithms10
job-queue10
python10
queuing10
data-structure10
queue10
linked-list9
recursion9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bloominstituteoftechnology/Whiteboard-Pairing
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 14 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Elissa contributed model solutions for various algorithm and data structure problems, primarily using Python. The solutions demonstrate proficiency in implementing algorithms like integer pair finding, minimum jumps, Fibonacci sequence calculation (iterative and recursive), linked list reversal, and queue implementations using stacks. The user also worked on a time planner and product of all other numbers implementation.
bloominstituteoftechnology/CS-Build-Week-1
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Conway's Game of Life
Contributions:63 commits, 59 pushes in 7 days
game-ofconwaylifeconway-s-game-of-life
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