Thijs De Vries
Senior Software Engineer at Wistia
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThijs De Vries is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building web and mobile applications, currently contributing to Wistia from Somerville, MA. He brings deep Ruby on Rails expertise—often using JRuby for enterprise backends—and modern front-end experience with Ember as well as native iOS development in Swift. His background spans startups and larger organizations (PatientsLikeMe, Staples) and includes full-stack responsibilities from database and server administration to production deployment processes. Notably, he has experience implementing developer workflows (GIT adoption, formalized deployment) and low-level tooling (kernel modules and diagnostic systems) that improve operational visibility. Practical, detail-oriented, and versatile, he reliably turns complex requirements into maintainable, production-grade software.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (144)
rubocop10
testing10
rspec10
ruby10
linter10
relay10
static-analysis10
code-analyzer10
lint10
static-code-analysis10
rack-middleware10
graphql-ruby9
swift9
authentication9
code-generation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
moger777/missingly
Jun 2013 - Jul 2019
Reduced boilerplate needed for method_missing in ruby.
Contributions:56 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 years 2 months
ruby
wistia/wistia-embedded-iframe-tester
Jul 2024 - Dec 2025
Transcript editor tester
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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