Gregory Thomas
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGregory Thomas is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and automation, currently at Google in Seattle. He brings strong expertise in Python, Java, and C++, and a track record of shaping data pipelines, CI/CD, and containerized deployments from his senior engineering role at Cisco. Gregory has led teams and mentored interns, driven schema migrations and core tooling, and previously built test automation frameworks at Trilliant and Honeywell. An active open-source contributor, he improved caching, clustering and security (fixing XSS) in the widely used Openfire XMPP server, showing attention to robust distributed systems. He pairs a Computer Science degree from Appalachian State with a Udacity Full Stack certificate, blending practical engineering with a habit of teaching and knowledge transfer.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Appalachian State UniversityCertificate of Completion, Full Stack Web Developer, Certificate of Completion, Full Stack Web Developer at Udacity
English
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Github Skills (18)
caching10
hazelcast10
java10
javas10
mysql9
clustering9
azure9
xml9
iis9
xmpp8
security7
html6
jpa6
hibernate6
sql6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
igniterealtime/Openfire
Jun 2016 - Feb 2022
An XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 468 commits, 336 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gregory primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Openfire project, focusing on enhancements to the caching mechanism and the integration with clustering technologies like Hazelcast. They implemented changes to improve data consistency, prevent errors, and ensure features like delayed delivery were correctly configured. Additionally, the user added features to the administration interface, such as displaying the clustering status on the admin screens. The user also fixed XSS vulnerabilities.
openfirexmpp-serverxmpplicensedapache-license
BT-OpenSource/bt-openlink-js
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:57 commits, 10 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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