Thomas Potaire
Chief Technology Officer at Plan, Inc
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Potaire is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 11 years of hands-on engineering experience building scalable, user-focused web platforms from startup marketplaces to large media properties. He has held senior engineering and technical lead roles at Twitter and CBS Interactive and now leads engineering and product technology at fast-growing fitness marketplace Recess and at Plan, Inc. Thomas spans the full stack—front-end performance and UX improvements, backend scalability, caching strategies, and realtime systems—and has a track record of refactoring legacy stacks into modern, maintainable architectures. He pairs startup grit with enterprise-grade discipline, scaling teams and systems for rapid user growth while keeping quality front and center. An early career background in systems and network administration (French Air Force) and certificates in OS development and IT management hint at a deep operational mindset beyond typical application engineering. Based in San Francisco, he filters outreach carefully and does not respond to recruiting agency messages.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Operating System Development, Certificate, Operating System Development at Dominican University of CaliforniaMaster, Computer Sciences, Master, Computer Sciences at SUPINFO - The International Institute of Information Technology
French, English
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Github Skills (102)
async10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
http-teapot/http-teapot.github.io
Feb 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:15 pushes in 9 years 10 months
bjrmatos/comment
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 28 days
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