Thomas Reynolds
Principal Engineer at Yahoo
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarThomas Reynolds is a Principal Engineer with 18 years of experience designing scalable front-end and full-stack systems from agency projects to large-scale product platforms. Based in Portland, he blends hands-on implementation (React, Svelte, Node/TypeScript, Rust) with architecture-level work—leading federated GraphQL migrations, micro-frontend rollouts, and adoption of Nest.js/OpenAPI to improve safety and developer experience. He’s led cross-functional teams and design systems at Viasat and Bitski, and shipped user-facing improvements for high-profile open-source projects like Middleman and Google I/O. Known for raising engineering standards through automation, testing and tooling, he thrives where UX polish meets robust backend contracts. An unusual through-line: deep CSS and theming expertise—evident in early Compass/Blueprint contributions—paired with modern API-first practices.
18 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (25)
markdown10
javascript10
blueprint10
static-site-generator10
css10
polymer10
sass10
user-interface10
blog-engine10
sc10
ruby10
markdown-it10
scs10
front-end-development10
html10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
middleman/middleman
Jul 2009 - Nov 2022
Hand-crafted frontend development
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
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Full-stack Developer
7.Contributions:29 reviews, 2457 commits, 598 PRs in 13 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas is a full-stack developer who contributes to the project's frontend development and helps with its testing infrastructure. The commits include: cleaning up the CLI class; adding and removing code related to testing; modifying template rendering and asset handling; and setting up hooks for file changes.
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front-end-developmentstatic-site-generatormiddleman
middleman/middleman-blog
Aug 2011 - Dec 2018
Blog Engine Extension for Middleman
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:164 commits, 21 PRs, 40 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the Middleman blog engine. Their contributions include getting templates working, implementing new templates, and fixing markdown-related errors. They also updated the project's versioning and performed tasks related to preparing the codebase for newer versions of the framework. The user demonstrated a good understanding of the Middleman framework and its plugin architecture.
blog-enginemiddleman-extensionmiddlemanmiddleman-blogruby
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