Riley Thompson
Software Engineer at Metabase
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRiley Thompson is a software engineer based in Toronto with eight years of experience building backend and full-stack systems across startups and scale-ups. Currently contributing to Metabase’s drivers and querying team in Clojure, Riley previously designed and operated a range of backend microservices in Go, TypeScript, and Python at Flybits, including analytics, auditing, orchestration, and automation tooling for 50+ services. Their background spans cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, gRPC, RabbitMQ), relational and document databases, and hands-on work across frontend and mobile stacks earlier in their career. Comfortable moving between languages and roles, Riley combines pragmatic engineering with platform-minded thinking to reduce operational friction and accelerate delivery. Trained in Computer Science with a business option from University of Waterloo, they bring both technical depth and product-focused sensibility to distributed systems challenges.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Assumption Catholic Secondary SchoolComputer Science, Business Option, Computer Science, Business Option at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (66)
dashboard10
postgresql10
clojure10
metabase10
golang10
data-visualization10
database10
embedded-analytics10
mysql10
analytics10
go10
slack10
data-analysis10
visualization10
business-intelligence10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rileythomp/redditbots
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:65 commits, 19 pushes in 6 months
rileythomp/cpp-games
Nov 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:66 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 6 months
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