Glan Thomas
Engineering Manager - App Store, Core Data Analytics Products
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGlan Thomas is an experienced engineering leader based in Seattle who builds data-driven platforms and consumer-facing products with a 20-year career arc and 14 years in senior engineering roles. Currently managing App Store Core Data Analytics at Apple, he has a proven track record modernizing large-scale data infrastructures—most recently driving Databricks and Spark Structured Streaming adoption and cost/performance optimization across global teams. His background spans product-focused roles at Meta (ads data lineage and privacy systems, scaling a team from 1 to 30+), consumer device software for Meta’s Portal, and early machine-learning production systems at Apple that surfaced real-world signals like the iPhone “Bendgate” story. Comfortable operating cross-functionally, he pairs hands-on engineering with stakeholder-driven KPI design, compliance-aware data governance, and developer experience improvements. Not obvious from titles alone, he’s repeatedly led geographically distributed teams and hiring efforts, growing engineering organizations while introducing CI, testing, and release-quality practices. He brings a pragmatic blend of product intuition, systems-level thinking, and operational rigor to complex analytics and privacy-sensitive domains.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Systems Engineering, MEng Computer Systems Engineering at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (56)
protractor10
javascript10
test-runner10
reference-implementation10
qunit10
tdd10
bdd10
graphql10
graphql-js10
jasmine10
runner10
mapbox-gl9
testing9
mapbox-gl-js9
browser9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
glan/CSS-Patterns-Workbench
Jul 2011 - Aug 2022
CSS Background Composer (formally CSS Gradient Editor)
Contributions:137 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 11 years 2 months
glan/karma
Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
spectaculartestingjavascripttest-runnerrunner
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