Garrett Thornburg
Founder at MOZR
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrett Thornburg is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building platform and product teams from early startups to scale-stage companies. Based in Salt Lake City, he served seven years at MX rising to VP of Engineering, Platform, where he led infrastructure and platform work that supported large-scale financial services products. He co-founded multiple startups, including Vanilla, which focused on one-click review flows for local businesses, reflecting a pragmatic mix of product intuition and technical execution. Garrett is an active backend contributor to open-source projects such as the nats.java client, where he improved reliability and subscription handling—showing a focus on robust messaging and systems-level code. He recently founded MOZR to continue shipping product-driven platform solutions and mentoring engineering teams. Known for combining hands-on coding with strategic leadership, he brings a builder’s curiosity and practical emphasis on reliability and developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at BYU
Russian
Github Skills (10)
javas10
webclient10
middleware10
nat10
natsio10
messaging10
clientside10
java10
testing8
concurrency8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nats-io/nats.java
Apr 2017 - Jul 2019
Java client for NATS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Garrett primarily contributed to the Java client library for NATS messaging, focusing on improving the reliability and functionality of the client. They addressed issues related to IOException during force flushing sockets and implemented new subscribe/unsubscribe methods with custom handler support, including associated testing. Additionally, the user made changes to the dispatcher class, refactoring and adding new methods for managing subscriptions and unsubscriptions. This work demonstrates a focus on core client functionality and message handling.
natsmessaging-librarymessagingmiddlewarejava
mxenabled/timber
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
An experimental postgres log parser
Contributions:1 release, 25 reviews, 36 commits in 2 months
postgresqllog-parserpostgresparser
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