Thomas Brigham is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading high-performing software teams and shipping reliable systems across startups and mid-sized companies. He’s led remote teams through large migrations and frequent releases with exceptional delivery and engagement metrics, including a 92% team engagement score and near-perfect manager feedback. Hands-on across the stack, Thomas has driven CI improvements, reduced build times by ~50%, built developer tooling adopted company-wide, and led zero-downtime deprecations of multiple legacy codebases. Recent work includes technical leadership at Toast and Rust engineering on fintech projects, and he maintains a GitHub portfolio of personal projects that reflect his pragmatic, infrastructure-minded approach. A BA in Music from William & Mary, he brings an uncommon combination of technical rigor and people-first management honed during periods of significant organizational change.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Music, Bachelor of Arts, Music at William & Mary
Rust implementation of the Postgres column type 'money'
Contributions:3 reviews, 14 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 7 months
postgresqlrustmoneypostgres
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