Jeff Thomas
Senior Full Stack Developer at Zillow Group
Richmond, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJeff Thomas is a Senior Full Stack Developer based in Richmond, CA with over a decade of professional experience and a 35+ year programming background spanning C/C++, Java, Scala, Ruby, PHP, and modern JavaScript. He helped scale Roblox’s large C# stack and now drives full-stack work at Zillow Group, combining deep systems knowledge with pragmatic delivery across startups and large companies. A longtime polyglot, he embraced functional programming through multi-year Scala work and maintains an ambitious personal Scala project that showcases his curiosity and willingness to explore less-mainstream approaches. Known for getting up to speed quickly—often contributing fixes on day one—he comfortably wears many hats during crunches, from UI bug fixes to database optimization and team support. Humble and no-nonsense, he balances continuous self-directed learning with a practical focus on shipping reliable, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (7)
rust7
compiler6
crate4
rust-lang3
allocator2
garbage-collection2
rust-language2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JeffThomas/lexx-go
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
A greedy lexical tokenizer in Go
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
golangdfalexicaltokenizergreedy
JeffThomas/lexx
Jun 2022 - Nov 2025
A greedy lexical string tokenizer in Rust
Contributions:13 PRs, 25 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 5 months
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