Stephania Thomas
Staff Software Engineer, SRE at Zendesk
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolStephania Thomas is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in SRE with 12 years of experience building and operating Ruby on Rails microservices and resilient infrastructure at scale. Currently at Zendesk, she blends deep backend expertise (Rails, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis) with production-grade ops skills—AWS, Chef, GitLabCI/CircleCI and chaos engineering—to improve reliability and deployment velocity. Comfortable across the full stack, she pairs TDD-driven engineering practices with front-end and UX sensibilities honed through earlier design and theatre work, enabling pragmatic product-focused solutions. A creative polymath, she has shipped open-source Rails projects and media-focused tooling, and maintains a public GitHub portfolio that reflects hands-on craftsmanship. Her unusual background in fine arts and stage production informs a user-centered perspective and strong communication skills when leading cross-functional incident response and platform improvements.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Sculpture, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Sculpture at Concordia UniversitySculpture Diploma Sculpture, Sculpture Diploma Sculpture at St. Petersburg Art School of Nicholas RoerichMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at City College of San FranciscoThe Ohio State UniversityLomonosov Moscow State University
French, Russian, English, Spanish, German, Uzbek
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Github Skills (18)
elasticsearch6
factory-bot6
oauth2-provider6
ruby-on-rails6
rubymine6
ruby6
intellij-idea6
eof6
oauth5
authentication5
oauth2-client5
chaos3
chaos-engineering2
kubernetes2
rails1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gambaroff/dotfiles-1
Apr 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:16 pushes in 7 years 7 months
vimtmuxtmux-configurationconfiguration-filesneovim
gambaroff/google-analytics-most-popular
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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