Summary
Thomas Beirne is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience building and scaling front-end platforms and product teams, currently leading engineering at Ediphi from Olympia, WA. He combines a deep appreciation for low-level technical detail with a talent for organizational work—designing FE build tooling, component libraries, and SLAs for reliability and performance. Thomas has moved between individual contributor and manager-of-managers roles at companies like BuildingConnected, Autodesk, and Gusto, where he helped standardize processes around interviewing, internships, and cross-team planning. He takes pride in coaching engineers and creating programs (including co-founding an internship program and running cross-discipline maker meetings) that amplify team growth and alignment. Known for turning Backbone-era apps into React-based, maintainable systems, he enjoys uncovering unexpectedly simple architectural solutions. Colleagues would describe him as intellectually curious, detail-oriented, and intentionally kind in leadership.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Western Washington University
Associate of Science, Associate of Science at SPSCC