Thomas Ballinger
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Ballinger is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backends and developer-facing systems, now a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic in San Francisco. He’s worked across startups and large teams—most recently at Convex and Dropbox—shipping production services, instrumentation, and data pipelines while mentoring engineers and improving hiring and onboarding processes. Thomas has deep interests in programming languages, compilers, and education, having authored and taught a hands-on compilers course that compiles Lox to Python bytecode and WebAssembly. He’s equally at home coaching learners—formerly as a Recursion Center facilitator—and contributing to practical research tooling from MRI pipelines to novel data vetos for LIGO-era work. Known for clear technical communication and a taste for playful self-description, he maintains a public presence (ballingt.com, Twitter) and is genuinely focused on helping others learn.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Physics, BA Physics at Carleton College
Github Skills (19)
wake-on-lan8
modbus7
libmodbus7
automation5
linux5
windows5
freebsd5
spacex5
python4
osgi3
bacnet3
pcf3
daemon3
java3
volttron2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kuhrusty/MorbadScorepad
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:12 releases, 151 commits, 97 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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