Summary
Robert Thomas is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building user-facing platforms and data-driven systems, currently based in Minneapolis. He has led full lifecycle projects from HIPAA-compliant healthcare portals and DNA-to-report algorithms to high-traffic kiosk and wayfinding systems used by millions. Comfortable across Python/Django, TypeScript, Angular/Vue, and cloud deployments, he blends hands-on engineering with people leadership—hiring teams, migrating org-wide tooling, and rolling out Atlassian/Git workflows. His background includes product and ML service ownership, pre-sales technical architecture, and instructor-level teaching experience that shapes his pragmatic mentorship style. Notably, he invented and commercialized a hardware product earlier in his career, giving him a rare mix of startup founder grit and enterprise delivery chops. He teaches as much as he codes, consistently turning complex requirements into usable, maintainable software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Urban Studies Urban Education and Leadership, Urban Studies Urban Education and Leadership at Stanford University
French, Spanish, Arabic, German