Shane Thomas
Founder Chief Product Officer at Mastra
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Thomas is a founder and product-focused engineer with 12 years of experience building developer-facing and creator tools from idea to market. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he’s currently building Mastra.ai, a TypeScript agent framework, after founding CodeKarate and shipping Audiofeed.ai to help creators turn written content into audio and video. Previously he led product and engineering teams at Gatsby and Netlify, driving the Valhalla/Netlify Connect content hub launches and blending hands-on coding with product strategy. Shane’s background spans startups and education—he co-founded a STEM academy that taught tens of thousands of students—bringing an unusual mix of product leadership, developer tooling expertise, and a focus on practical AI-enabled content workflows. His GitHub playfully houses a Zork repo, hinting at a long-standing curiosity for classic computing alongside modern stacks.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Information Systems at Dakota State University
Github Skills (85)
testing10
ruby10
seeding10
hex10
faker10
dummy-data10
opengl10
elixir10
seed10
factory10
game-dev10
generator10
bamboo10
game-engine9
static-analysis9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
devshane/zork
Dec 2013 - Feb 2017
The DUNGEON (Zork I) source
Contributions:3 releases, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 3 months
old-schooldungeongamezorkadventure-game
devshane/cool-fish-functions
Dec 2013 - Mar 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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