Florian Thomas
Principal Engineer at Deliveroo
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Thomas is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience building resilient backend systems and machine learning-driven consumer features at Deliveroo, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Principal since 2017. He combines deep Ruby and Go expertise with distributed systems and AWS know-how, having led initiatives from customer search and fraud protections to the company’s first TensorFlow ranking models and visualization tools for model rollout. Florian is an active open-source contributor to the widely used Jekyll project, improving core stability and URL/filter handling—underscoring his attention to robustness and testing. He’s known for practical automation that improves team operations (on-call Slack bot, reviewer-assignment Github app) and for translating research work into production-ready services that measurably improve user experience.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen
German, English
Github Skills (7)
testing10
static-site-generator10
ruby10
configuration-management9
liquid8
markdown7
markdown-it7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jekyll/jekyll
Oct 2015 - Mar 2018
:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 46 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Jekyll static site generator. Their work included handling empty configuration files, fixing warnings, and ensuring the `Serve.process` command received the same configuration as `Build.process`. The user also addressed URL validation issues, expanded the filter functionalities and added missing tests, demonstrating a focus on stability and feature enhancement within the project.
globestatic-siteliquidblog-engineruby
Crunch09/crunch09.github.io
Jun 2015 - Nov 2020
my personal website
Contributions:3 PRs, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 5 months
reactnextjs
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