Thomas C
Senior Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolThomas C is a senior software engineer based in Philadelphia with eight years of experience building and maintaining high-throughput, mission-critical platforms. At the Wikimedia Foundation he helped design and operate the Event Platform that processes over a billion events per day and worked across platform, API, and data teams to scale services to hundreds of thousands of requests per second. He contributes to core open-source projects like MediaWiki, improving backend query pages and adding integration tests for API features, showing commitment to reliability and testability. Thomas blends backend systems expertise (stream processing with Flink, NodeJS service standardization) with practical Jamstack web development and DevOps deployments on Cloudflare. He also brings a background in community-facing roles—from founding PR and streaming efforts in collegiate esports to peer tutoring—so he pairs technical depth with clear communication and collaboration. A quirky detail: he maintains isthomasalive.com, hinting at a playful, personable approach to engineering and public presence.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Temple UniversityThe College of Global Studies at Arcadia University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
51reputation
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Github Skills (12)
testing10
mediawiki10
php10
api10
apidoc10
refactor9
refactoring9
unit-testing8
wikipedia8
npm6
squarespace6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed to the core functionality of the MediaWiki software. Their work focused on refining existing code, specifically modifying the `QueryPage.php` and `ImageQueryPage.php` files to address comment-related issues. Additionally, the user added integration tests for the ApiQueryExternalLinks feature. Furthermore, the user worked on signature adjustments and made updates to support fluent interfaces for both PageUpdater and StatusValue.
wikimediaphpwikipediacollaborative-editingruns
tchin25/japanese-dependency-visualizer
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 release, 66 commits, 15 pushes in 7 months
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