Stephen Thoma
Software at Clearwater Analytics
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Thoma is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, product-focused systems from startup to enterprise. Currently at Clearwater Analytics, he leads development of "Insights," turning proprietary financial datasets into actionable products, and previously scaled core services and novel fit algorithms as a founding engineer and director at apparel tech startup unspun. His background spans distributed systems, analytics, NewSQL schema design, and performance engineering—shipping millisecond-precision rate limiting, high-RPS consumer services, and BigQuery-integrated time-series analytics. Based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on engineering with product intuition and has a penchant for turning complex data into usable, production-grade features. An early-stage operator and occasional advisor, he pairs startup grit with structured engineering practices honed across acquisitions and fast-growing teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English
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Github Skills (44)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stephenthoma/propbot
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:63 commits, 40 pushes in 1 year 4 months
stephenthoma/muddle
Apr 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
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