Rhydian Thomas
Principal Engineer & Manager at Optus
Wollongong City Council, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolRhydian Thomas is a Principal Engineer and manager with 20+ years of software development experience and over a decade leading mobile engineering teams across major Australian telcos and enterprises. He currently heads the cross-functional team responsible for the amaysim iOS and Android apps at Optus, bringing deep expertise in native and React Native mobile stacks, native module integration, and CI/CD-driven delivery. His consultancy background includes technical leadership roles for complex app rewrites and integrations at Qantas, Vodafone, Nine and BT, where he combined architecture, hands-on coding and test automation to scale teams and products. Known for pragmatic problem solving in regulated and high-traffic environments, he pairs strong delivery discipline with a history of mentoring engineers and driving quality uplift. An early mobile industry engineer, he traces his roots through device management and wireless platforms at elata and Qualcomm, giving him uncommon perspective on both low-level mobile systems and modern cross-platform app architectures.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Spring Certification, IBM WebSphere Training, Spring Certification, IBM WebSphere Training at Certification, Training and Conferences1st Class Honours, Software Engineering and Management, 1st Class Honours, Software Engineering and Management at Bournemouth University
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Github Skills (46)
ios10
mobile-development10
windows10
app-framework10
skiasharp10
mobile-game10
cross-platform10
ipa10
desktop10
avcapturesession10
material-design10
android10
skia10
mobile10
web-framework10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rhydiant/geo-flutter
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:62 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
amaysim-au/rename
Oct 2021 - Dec 2024
it is an dart package which renames the app for ios and android
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 2 months
renamesdart2dartandroidios
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