Thomas Gideon
Principal Software Engineer at Great Minds
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Gideon is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience who builds developer tools, infrastructure, and web applications—exclusively in Rust—having written Rust daily since 2016. He combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, having led teams, taught a six-month Rust course, and driven platform and SRE work across companies from Vistaprint to CarEdge and Great Minds. An active open-source maintainer, he created utilities like Trivalent (a cross-compilation Docker image), Medallion (a Rust JWT), and bootstrap.rs (a Yew component library), and he mentors Rust learners through Awesome Rust Mentors. Comfortable across the stack, he has shipped production data pipelines, deployment tooling, and SSO/test orchestration services, and he prefers roles that focus primarily on Rust. He also produces and hosts The Command Line Podcast, blending technical depth with public-facing conversations about engineering and policy—an uncommon mix for a systems-focused engineer.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Fine Arts, BFA Fine Arts at William & Mary
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Github Skills (178)
rust10
lint10
bit10
rust-lang9
jsonpath9
serde9
compiler9
pgp9
json-data9
python9
multithreading9
linter9
strongly-typed9
musl-gcc9
json9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cmdln/medallion
Feb 2017 - Oct 2021
A JWT library for rust that uses serde, serde_json and openssl
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 years 9 months
serderustjsonjwtserde-json
commandline/talks
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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