Summary
John Thomas is a Staff Software Engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience building web and mobile products, and a decade of focused experience in modern frontend engineering and systems architecture. He has led teams and shipped customer-facing SaaS monitoring products at VividCortex (acquired by SolarWinds) and currently drives engineering work at SolarWinds, combining product sensibility with deep technical craft. As founder of an iOS-focused shop, he shipped multiple App Store–featured apps and blends mobile UX instincts with backend and API experience in Ruby/Rails. His background includes enterprise integration and security work for DoD/VA projects and large-scale systems engineering at Lockheed Martin, giving him uncommon depth across regulated, cloud, and consumer domains. Colleagues describe him as customer-focused and empathetic, equally comfortable mentoring teams and rolling up his sleeves to solve thorny architecture or frontend problems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information Technology, Masters Information Technology at Virginia Tech