Thomas Claxton
Software Engineer II at Vail Systems
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolThomas Claxton is a Software Engineer II based in Chicago with 11 years of hands-on experience building JVM-based APIs and React web applications. At Vail Systems he progressed from Java Software Engineer to his current role, demonstrating steady ownership of backend services and front-end integrations. He blends practical university research and tutoring experience with production engineering, having tested database security tools and taught data structures in Java. Thomas posts personal projects on GitHub, reflecting a habit of iterating publicly and experimenting beyond day-to-day work. Known for clear troubleshooting and service-oriented support from early help-desk roles, he brings strong operational empathy to feature development and incident resolution. His background suggests an engineer who values both clean API design and thoughtful developer-facing tooling.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at DePaul UniversityHomewood-Flossmoor High School
Github Skills (39)
browser-extension9
chrome-extension9
refresh9
google-chrome9
uid8
webapp8
reactive7
csc7
javascript7
java7
chrome7
fault-tolerance6
fault6
bulkhead6
scraper6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Claxtastic/BlitzBot
Oct 2019 - Apr 2023
A Discord Music bot made with Typescript
Contributions:26 PRs, 102 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 6 months
discord-jsdiscorddiscordjsbotdiscord-bot
Claxtastic/just-refresh
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
A simple auto-refresh extension for Google Chrome
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 11 months
refreshchromegoogle-chromeauto-refreshchrome-extension
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