Robin Thomas
Staff Software Engineer at Cube
Village of Woodbury, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Thomas is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building data-driven systems and leading BI/data engineering teams across companies like Squarespace, Vimeo, and Cube. He combines hands-on engineering with open-source stewardship—maintaining Python data tools such as gspread-dataframe and contributing database-level fixes to the widely used Citus extension for distributed PostgreSQL. Comfortable operating across the stack, Robin has led teams and projects that translate complex analytics requirements into reliable, production-grade pipelines and storage solutions. Based in Woodbury, NY, he blends pragmatic leadership with deep technical craft, often surfacing subtle correctness fixes (e.g., constraint and shard-name handling) that improve long-running distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Lakeland University
Github Skills (9)
databases10
citus10
postgresql10
database-administration10
distributed-database10
sql10
database10
sharding9
relational-databases9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
citusdata/citus
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 70 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Robin's contributions primarily involve modifying the Citus database extension code to improve its functionality and address identified issues. The commits focus on removing deprecated features, enhancing the handling of constraints on distributed tables, and improving the behavior of shard-extended names. The user has also added test coverage to validate the changes.
postgresqldatabasecitusmulti-tenantscale
robin900/gspread-formatting
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Complete cell formatting support for Google spreadsheets via gspread package.
Contributions:168 commits, 25 PRs, 180 pushes in 4 years 5 months
gspreadgoogle-spreadsheetformattingcell-formatpython
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