Thomas L
Head Of Engineering at Defendify
Portland, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolThomas L is a seasoned software leader and Head of Engineering based in Portland, Maine, bringing three decades of full-stack development experience and 13 years in senior engineering roles. Currently leading engineering at a security-focused startup, he has progressed from backend engineer to Head of Engineering, blending hands-on coding with team and product leadership. He has a long history of building reliable systems across startups and agencies, previously serving as Principal Engineer at his own firm and Senior Technologist at Razorfish. An avid problem-solver who "builds another machine" when problems seem vast, he contributes to open-source quality through test automation and maintenance on projects like exercism/go. Known for improving test suites, standardizing versioning, and clarifying error handling, he brings a pragmatic focus on quality and maintainability to security-minded products.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Hamilton College
Github Skills (4)
tracks10
go10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/go
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Exercism exercises in Go.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:149 commits, 284 PRs, 131 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on ensuring the quality and consistency of the Exercism Go track exercises. Their contributions involved adding and modifying test cases across various exercises, including triangle, accumulate, acronym, and others. The user standardized test versioning, updated error handling within tests, and refactored tests for better clarity, demonstrating a strong focus on test suite maintenance and improvements.
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tleen/zippity-do-dah
Mar 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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