Thomas Bonnin
Software Engineer at Nango (YC W23)
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Bonnin is a seasoned software engineer with 15+ years building high-performance, user-facing systems and backend platforms used by millions. He blends pragmatic simplicity with deep technical breadth—from Firecracker-based orchestration and Go services that halved operational costs to TypeScript/Postgres cloud backends and Scala/AWS at large publishers. As a senior engineer and architect he has led data platform, paywall/account integrations, and analytics infrastructure work while mentoring teams and driving engineering best practices. His contributions to well-known projects like The Guardian's frontend show a focus on maintainability and operational excellence, particularly around API error handling and load balancing. Now based in Jersey City, he continues to build cost-efficient, scalable systems at Nango after shaping cloud build and deploy tooling at Gatsby/Netlify.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master MIAGE Computer science and management, Master MIAGE Computer science and management at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIIComputer science and management, Computer science and management at Concordia UniversityDUT informatique Computer Science, DUT informatique Computer Science at Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
error-logging10
back-end-development10
scala10
backend10
apim9
configuration-management9
api9
aws8
cocoa-touch6
xcode6
iphone6
multithreading6
cocoa6
objective-c6
grid-lines6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1189 commits, 745 PRs, 1179 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to backend development, focusing on error logging within the Accuweather API and making improvements to the load balancer configurations. They also addressed the issue of deprecated methods and configuration issues within the project, indicating a focus on maintenance and upgrading. The contributions show a good understanding of the project's architecture and dependencies.
productionguardian
TBonnin/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
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