Thomas Holmes
Lead Software Engineer at Heroku
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Holmes is a Lead Software Engineer based in Atlanta with 12 years of experience designing and operating services and distributed systems. He has progressed from early application development roles to senior distributed-systems work at MailChimp — building Kafka- and Scala-based pipelines — and now leads engineering at Heroku. Thomas combines deep systems thinking with practical delivery, focusing on resilient, service-oriented architectures and operational excellence. His background includes building professional task software and hands-on experience across the full lifecycle of production systems, making him comfortable both architecting and troubleshooting large-scale distributed services.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Clemson University
Github Skills (108)
twitter-api10
binding10
twitter-client10
twitter9
api9
sketchup9
rspec9
launcher9
capybara9
streaming8
test-framework8
ruby8
test-kitchen8
heroku8
testing8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thomas-holmes/twitter
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
apitwitter-apirubytwitter
heroku/fog-bouncer
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
A simple way to define and manage security groups for AWS with the backing support of fog.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 4 months
groupsstatelesssecurity-groupssecurityfog
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