Robin Thomas
Staff Engineer - Frontend at Drivetrain
Kerala, India
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRobin Thomas is a Staff Frontend Engineer with a decade of experience building product-first web applications at early-stage startups and scaleups, currently leading frontend efforts at Drivetrain. He blends a designer's eye and copywriting skills with deep frontend craftsmanship—React, Ember and modern JavaScript—while also contributing backend work in Node, Java and Ruby on Rails. Passionate about usability, web standards and accessibility, he has a track record of shipping polished UX and pragmatic engineering processes across teams. An active open-source contributor, he has done full-stack work on the Olive non-linear video editor, integrating cross-platform dependencies and refactoring UI components for better functionality. Based in Kerala, India, he pairs strong program and project management instincts with a B.Tech in Computer Science, making him effective at turning ambiguous product ideas into shipped features.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Santa Maria public schoolBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Amal Jyothi College of Engineering
Github Skills (12)
editors10
video-editing10
c-language10
cross-platform10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
editor10
opengl7
windows7
linux7
macos7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
olive-editor/olive
Dec 2018 - Jan 2022
Free open-source non-linear video editor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Robin contributed to the Olive video editor project by implementing and integrating external dependencies for cross-platform compatibility, specifically with VCPKG and its associated libraries for video and audio processing. They refactored UI components, renaming buttons in the viewer class for improved functionality. They also made minor changes by merging the master branch.
cppwindowsvstvideo-editorlinux
Interesting-Opensource-Projects/olive
Dec 2018 - Feb 2023
Professional open-source NLE video editor
Contributions:20 PRs, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
professionalnlevideo-editorltivideo
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.