James Thomson
Principal Engineer at DashFox
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Thomson is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building front-end focused and full-stack systems, currently taking a development break until December while leading engineering at DashFox. He has deep hands-on expertise across React, Ember, Angular, Vue and Ruby on Rails, and a strong background in cloud-native tooling from roles at VMware and Pivotal working on Concourse CI, Kubernetes, BOSH and Go-based services. James combines front-end craftsmanship with systems engineering—having led interoperability and automation testing for Pivotal Cloud Foundry and contributed to OSS projects—while volunteering long-term as a web developer for the Vietnam Education Society. Based in Old Toronto and trained in computer engineering at Waterloo, he blends pragmatic product delivery with curiosity (his GitHub quip “it's my first day” belies a patient, experimental approach to learning).
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (48)
container10
docker10
concourse-resource10
continuous-integration10
continuous-delivery10
elm10
concourse10
tracks10
runc10
containerd10
go10
gocd10
golang10
semantic9
authentication8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jomsie/testing
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
xtreme-james-thomson/terraforming-aws
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
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