Summary
Jesse Thomson is a Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building reliable, revenue-generating web and cloud-native products, currently contributing to Grafana Labs from Buffalo, NY. He specializes in JavaScript/Node.js ecosystems, API design, containerization and orchestration, and message-driven systems (RabbitMQ), with front-end fluency in React/Redux and Vue/Vuex. His background spans full-stack roles in search & advertising, telecom R&D, and startup IoT platforms, giving him a strong blend of pragmatic engineering and systems thinking. Comfortable shipping end-to-end features and optimizing distributed services, he frequently bridges product needs and operational reliability. A pragmatic polyglot who started hand-coding sites in the Web 2.0 era, he brings long-term perspective on web standards and maintainable architecture to modern cloud stacks.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University at Buffalo