Thomas Crider
Senior Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Crider is a Senior Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat with 12 years of experience bridging support, maintenance, and DevOps. Based in Denver, he’s a long-time open-source tinkerer and one of three maintainers of wine-staging, contributing key compatibility fixes that help Windows games run on Linux and improving integration in the popular Lutris game launcher. His work spans build automation for custom Wine builds, back-end changes to detect custom Proton builds, and robust scripting to handle complex Wine and Vulkan configurations. Known for turning hobbyist passion into reliable production contributions, he combines hands-on engineering with deep practical knowledge of Linux gaming stacks.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated with AP and Honors, Graduated with AP and Honors at Mandarin High SchoolAssociate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Florida State College at Jacksonville
Github Skills (20)
proton10
python10
app-launcher10
bash10
build-system10
launcher-application10
application-launcher10
cicd10
automation10
script10
automations10
vagrant10
wine10
launcher10
containerization9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
My custom build of wine, made to use with lutris. Built with lutris's buildbot.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:98 releases, 296 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on automating and streamlining the build and deployment processes within the repository. They implemented a build environment setup using bash scripts and tools like Vagrant. Their contributions included setting up SSH access for build machines, configuring container networks, and automating the build processes for the Wine project. They also made improvements to the build script itself.
gamewineprotonlutrisbuildbot
lutris/lutris
Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
Lutris desktop client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 12 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the Lutris desktop client by enhancing the integration with Wine and Proton, key components for running games. Their work involved adding functionality to detect custom Proton builds and modifying Wine-related scripts to correctly handle paths and configurations. The user also addressed several bug fixes and implemented changes to Vulkan ICD loader options and UMWL integration, improving the overall compatibility and functionality of the game launcher. This includes ensuring the correct selection of Vulkan loaders and proper handling of ULWGL for specific wine configurations.
pygobjectpythongaminggame-launcherpython3
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