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 (77)
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windows9
ios9
desktop9
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cross-platform9
flutter9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
iamralpht/iamralpht.github.io
Apr 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:201 commits, 31 pushes, 6 comments in 1 year 11 months
iamralpht/gravitas.js
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
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