Thomas Ice
Chief Engineer - Emerging Technologies at VES, LLC
Clinton Township, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Ice is a Chief Engineer specializing in embedded Linux and real-time systems with eight years of hands-on experience building rugged, production firmware and platform software. He leads emerging technologies at VES, guiding cross-disciplinary teams from prototyping to fielded systems, and previously delivered avionics and defense-grade solutions at General Dynamics and HRU. Thomas pairs low-level expertise in Linux and VxWorks with practical tooling improvements—his contributions to the popular git-quick-stats project show attention to developer UX, testing, and robust CLI design. Based in Clinton Township, Michigan, he blends academic grounding in information technology with a pragmatic, maker’s mindset: “just a programmer looking to program stuff” who nonetheless drives engineering strategy and operational reliability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology at Florida State UniversityAssociate's Degree, Associate's Degree at Indian River State College
English, Japanese
Github Skills (11)
sh10
command-line-interface10
git10
bash10
script10
shell10
command-line10
documentation9
testing9
topicmaps8
changelog8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
git-quick-stats/git-quick-stats
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
▁▅▆▃▅ Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 25 reviews, 36 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the git-quick-stats tool. They refactored the command-line argument parsing, updated the tests, and added new features such as color scheme toggling and JSON output. The user's contributions also involved improving the documentation and expanding the features around merge commit handling, demonstrating a solid understanding of the project's core functionalities and the Git environment.
brancheschangelogshell-scripttaigashell
tomice/git-quick-stats
Dec 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
statisticsgit-repositoryversion-controlgit-addonscli
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