Thomas Harning
Software Engineer at Varonis
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Harning is a seasoned software engineer with 19 years’ experience building reliable backend systems and transforming monoliths into scalable microservices. Currently at Varonis and previously a senior engineering leader at Censys, he has delivered major performance improvements—cutting complex data processing from hours to minutes—and led GraphQL-driven data access and tracing/benchmarking efforts. His background includes deep work in authentication and secure middleware at Symantec/VeriSign, where he helped migrate trillion-row datasets to AWS and authored a patented certificate configuration framework. An active contributor to the Moai SDK’s Box2D physics integration, he combines low-level accuracy fixes with API usability improvements, reflecting a comfort across systems, tooling, and documentation. Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for simplifying complex data flows and preserving production reliability.
19 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Information Technology, BS, Computer Science, Information Technology at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (12)
lua10
unit-conversion10
api-design9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
documentation7
javascript6
cryptoapi6
sha6
visual-studio6
compiler-construction6
scripting6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
moai/moai-dev
Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
This is the development repo of Moai SDK.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the MOAIBox2D library, focusing on improvements and fixes for the MOAIBox2DWheelJoint, MOAIBox2DRevoluteJoint, MOAIBox2DPrismaticJoint, MOAIBox2DFrictionJoint and MOAIBox2DRopeJoint. Their work included correcting unit conversions, fixing Lua stack management in joint functions, updating documentation, and adding API methods for motor control. These changes aimed to improve the accuracy and usability of the Box2D physics integration within the Moai SDK.
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harningt/cryptoface
Nov 2008 - Jun 2012
Contributions:38 commits in 3 years 8 months
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