Thads Egar
Software Engineer L4 at Netflix
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThads Egar is a pragmatic full‑stack software engineer with eight years of experience building user-facing and service-oriented systems using TypeScript, React, GraphQL and Java/Kotlin. He’s currently at Netflix on Promotional Media Engineering after progressing through multiple roles at Expedia Group where he focused on server-driven UI, reusable components, and Spring/Kotlin microservice orchestration for vacation rental search and product pages. His background includes performance-focused backend work—such as a caching service at Vrbo that improved response times by ~65%—and applied AI training from a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence. Based in San Jose, he combines strong frontend UX sensibilities with solid backend engineering, and prefers pragmatic, measurable improvements that scale across teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Heritage High SchoolMaster's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasProgramming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ThadsEgar/chess_rl
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:334 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ThadsEgar/thadsegar.github.io
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 3 branches in 14 days
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