Thomas Colgrove
Staff Software Engineer at Toast
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Colgrove is a Staff Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA with 11 years of experience building full-stack web platforms and domain services. Currently at Toast, he focuses on domain services, UX, and AI tooling, bringing recent leadership experience as a senior engineer who scaled Lists infrastructure and rebuilt decoupled React SPAs at Wayfair. He combines hands-on coding across React, GraphQL/Apollo, Node.js and PHP with systems-level thinking that reduced incident rates and customer bugs dramatically in prior roles. A proven technical planner, he has led integrations across 10+ teams and managed small engineering teams while driving measurable stability and performance gains. He started his career building rule engines and teaching low-level programming at Tufts, reflecting a blend of practical product focus and deep technical mentorship. Colgrove’s background suggests a knack for translating cross-team complexity into robust, decoupled architectures and developer-friendly tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Tufts UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Needham High School
Spanish
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Github Skills (47)
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
visual-studio-code-extension9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
visual-studio9
vscode9
framerate6
android-ndk6
queue6
pointer6
optimization6
midi6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
trcolgrove/Contours
Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:13 PRs, 34 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 2 months
androidtrainingandroid-applicationkeyboardprofessor
trcolgrove/jump_ship
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
minecraftplatformershootshoot-em-upcomp
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