Greg Thornton
Lead Full Stack Software Engineer at Assurant
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Thornton is a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer based in Nashville with 17 years of hands-on experience building reliable web and devops tooling. He blends front-end polish and back-end rigor—contributing UI and access-control work to Strider CI and React-based graph tooling while hardening Node.js frameworks like Sails. Greg also brings practical automation and infrastructure chops, having scripted VM provisioning, improved RVM/Chef installs, and added network/firmware features for embedded camera hacks. A consistent open-source collaborator, he focuses on developer experience, testability, and production stability across projects. At Assurant and previously Tapps.to, he leads engineering efforts that span from system automation to customer-facing interfaces, pairing pragmatic engineering with a history of improving build and deployment workflows.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Middle Tennessee State University
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testing10
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bash10
websocket10
chef-client10
automation10
svg10
sailsjs10
integration-testing10
network-configuration10
javascript10
webui10
front-end-development10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
xdissent/ievms
Aug 2011 - Sep 2018
Automated installation of the Microsoft IE App Compat virtual machines
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 111 commits, 10 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on automating the installation and setup of Microsoft IE virtual machines using a bash script. Their contributions include adding support for multiple IE versions, integrating with VirtualBox and its extension pack, and implementing a system for downloading and extracting VHD images. They also improved the build process and added features such as resuming downloads and automatically installing guest additions.
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flowhub/the-graph
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
SVG custom elements for FBP graph editing and visualization. Used in noflo/noflo-ui
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project, focusing on the implementation of React components for an SVG-based graph editor. Their commits involved refactoring the codebase to use React's `createElement` and removing deprecated calls. The user integrated various libraries like `hammerjs`, and `create-react-class` and ensured the project's readiness for testing by adding necessary dependencies to the vendor bundle. They addressed code smells by removing deprecated calls.
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