Giles Thomas
Sabbatical
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolGiles Thomas is a seasoned software entrepreneur and engineer with 16 years of experience building developer-facing platforms and cloud IDEs. He co-founded and ran PythonAnywhere for over a decade, guiding its growth from startup to acquisition by Anaconda and then leading its integration as Principal Software Engineer and team lead. Prior to that he co-founded Resolver Systems and held senior engineering roles at Goldman Sachs and several product-focused firms, giving him deep experience across web, trading, and developer tooling. Based in Lisbon, he blends hands-on coding with product leadership and platform architecture, with a focus on making development accessible and scalable. Currently on sabbatical after 14 years at the helm of PythonAnywhere, he’s taking time to recharge while remaining deeply familiar with the operational realities of running a SaaS platform. An early adopter of cloud IDE paradigms, he brings uncommon expertise in running and evolving production systems used directly by developers.
16 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA) Computer Science, Master of Arts (MA) Computer Science at University of Cambridge
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
5,842reputation
324kreached
151answers
7questions
webgl
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flask
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ide
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Github Skills (145)
python10
act10
flask10
webgl10
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
ssl-certificate10
pythonanywhere10
letsencrypt9
wsgi9
acme9
pyramid9
webapp9
web-application9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pythonanywhere/pythonanywhere_task_helpers
Feb 2015 - Aug 2023
Task Helper tutorials for PythonAnywhere
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 comment, 1 issue in 8 years 6 months
pythonanywherepythonpython3
gpjt/rsp
Jul 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:168 commits in 6 months
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