Summary
Thomas Stapleton is a Staff Software Engineer with 19 years of experience building full-stack products and leading engineering teams from San Francisco. He combines hands-on coding across the stack with pragmatic leadership, prioritizing people, process, and product to deliver quality solutions that solve business problems. At Tradeshift he led cross-functional teams to launch MVPs, created the company’s engineer growth framework, and founded a developer experience team that unified API documentation. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and manager, he champions async communication, clear planning documents, and engineering practices that improve delivery. Known for creating prototypes that win stakeholder buy-in, he’s equally adept at shipping production systems and improving how teams work together.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Computer Science, Finance, Bachelor's, Computer Science, Finance at University of Colorado at Boulder