Ralph Thomas
Software Engineer at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRalph Thomas is a seasoned software engineer and product-focused leader with 13 years of experience building high-performance UIs and embedded systems for consumer devices. He helped pioneer early MP3 players and smartphones, authored Tesla’s Autopilot visualizations and led the UI engineering team that redesigned the Model 3 in-car interface and consolidated Tesla’s mobile apps. Ralph combines low-level graphics expertise (learned at Silicon Graphics) with product instincts—he optimizes for constrained hardware while delivering polished user experiences. He also founded vehicle.software to rethink in-car infotainment, bridging startup speed with large-product experience. Based in Palo Alto, he’s comfortable shipping production systems that span mobile, automotive, and embedded platforms and often focuses on pragmatic automation such as hardware-in-loop test suites to ensure reliability.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ohlone Elementary
Github Skills (66)
render10
2d-vector10
figma10
android-app10
android10
offscreen10
jetpack-compose10
graphic9
windows9
shelly9
ios9
esphome9
macos9
dart8
rust8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
iamralpht/iamralpht.github.io
Apr 2013 - Mar 2015
ralpht's web examples and demos
Contributions:201 commits, 31 pushes, 6 comments in 1 year 11 months
iamralpht/slalom
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Declarative touch interactions from linear constraints
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 1 month
mathdeclarativetouchlinearinteractions
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