Thomas Oropeza
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Oropeza is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend services and developer tooling, currently contributing to Google Maps Platform Android Core Infrastructure in San Francisco. He previously led technical efforts at Workday's Customer Deployment Tools team, standardizing over 1,800 APIs and delivering a data sequencing service that helped drive $33M in annual customer savings. Thomas combines strong engineering craft with a collaborative, people-first approach to software quality, drawn from roles ranging from research on the MIT App Inventor project to teaching computer science. His open-source contributions include backend improvements to the well-known MIT App Inventor Gallery—enhancing search, pagination, and moderation workflows. Comfortable across large-scale enterprise systems and developer-facing automation, he brings practical design sensibilities and a knack for preventing subtle data-migration errors. Outside engineering, he applies service-oriented discipline learned managing a long-running family restaurant to team coordination and customer-focused delivery.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Archbishop Riordan High SchoolComputer Science, Senior, Computer Science, Senior at University of San Francisco
Spanish
Github Skills (6)
javas10
appengine10
java10
pagination10
searching10
back-end-development9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mit-cml/appinventor-sources
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
MIT App Inventor Public Open Source
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 13 PRs, 18 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the App Inventor Gallery feature. Their contributions include adding tutorial categories, improving search functionality with pagination and retry mechanisms, and updating the moderation process by enhancing user messages and requiring descriptions for reported apps. These changes involved modifications to back-end Java code, particularly within the `ProfilePage`, `GallerySearchIndex`, and `GalleryList` files.
app-inventormit-app-inventorandroidmitinventor
toropeza/appinventor-sources
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:52 pushes, 30 branches in 9 months
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