Thomas Manley
Senior Software Engineer at Breakers Foundry
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Manley is a Senior Software Engineer based in Louisville, Kentucky with 11 years of hands-on experience building web platforms and APIs. He progressed from PHP development and maintaining high-profile sites to principal engineering leadership at Generation Tux, and now balances a senior engineering role at Bluemill with founding Breakers Foundry. Thomas has deep practical experience with frameworks like CakePHP, Laravel and Lumen, and a track record of turning customer-facing requirements into reliable backend services. His background includes real-world operational roles—from plumbing and bus driving to running a boxing program—which inform a pragmatic, get-things-done approach to engineering and team leadership. Known for shipping maintainable code and architecting admin and API solutions, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade delivery. Outside of work he’s unafraid to admit a love of fried chicken, a small hint of his grounded, approachable personality.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Western High School
Spanish
Github Skills (32)
api-platform10
api-design10
api-client10
http-client10
api10
rest-api10
curl10
insomnia9
websocket9
rest9
grpc9
graphql9
cross-platform8
health7
php4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tmanley1985/algorithm_kata
Jun 2023 - Nov 2023
A place to practice algorithms and data structures in public
Contributions:84 PRs, 75 pushes, 82 branches in 5 months
tmanley1985/screencast-decks
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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