Thomas Storey
Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Storey is a Senior Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, scalable SaaS platforms and ad-tech/event-tech solutions, currently contributing at DuckDuckGo from Gainesville, Florida. He combines hands-on backend engineering with leadership experience as a former Director of Engineering at Feathr, where he guided product development and championed testing and resilience across production systems. Trained as both a technologist and artist (MFA in Art + Technology), he brings a creative, human-centered approach to software and team leadership, guided by compassion. Equally comfortable in Node.js, Python, and systems design, he has a track record of improving reliability and performance while translating stakeholder needs into practical engineering outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Visualization Science, BS, Visualization Science at Texas A&M UniversityMaster of Fine Arts (MFA), Art + Technology, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Art + Technology at University of Florida
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
spotify8
egui6
specification6
android6
linux6
java6
fonts6
user-interface6
ncurses6
mongodb5
validate5
rust5
macos5
serialization5
cross-platform5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thomasrstorey/KDL-Parser
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
thomasrstorey/zoomroa.st
Jul 2017 - Jan 2022
An app for automatically generating "zoomroast" memes.
Contributions:26 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
memes
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