Thomas Vidas
Software Engineer III at Fanatics
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Vidas is a Software Engineer III with 11 years of experience focused on mobile development, full-stack engineering, and developer tooling, currently building mobile experiences at Fanatics from Cambridge, MA. He has deep expertise in native iOS and Android SDKs—having designed payment and analytics SDKs that process billions of events across millions of devices—and led modernization efforts around Swift/Kotlin migrations, CI/CD, and clean architecture. As Staff Mobile Engineer at Stax he architected modular, PCI-compliant payment SDKs and established monthly automated release pipelines while mentoring junior engineers. A significant open-source contributor and developer advocate for Ionic’s Capacitor (12.5k+ stars), he has shaped native bridges, CLI features, and documentation that power cross-platform apps worldwide. Equally comfortable in backend stacks (Laravel, Node.js, Redis) and front-end frameworks (React, TypeScript), he combines pragmatic full-stack fluency with a talent for improving developer experience. He’s known for translating complex payment and analytics requirements into reusable, secure SDKs and for sharing that knowledge through talks, writing, and community leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Florida Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (16)
javascript10
cross-platform10
capacitor10
android10
cocoapods10
cli10
ios9
javas8
java8
swift6
typescript-types5
typescripts5
typescript5
html4
pwapp4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ionic-team/capacitor
Nov 2020 - May 2022
Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 24 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Thomas made significant contributions to the Capacitor CLI and Android bridge, including adding features and fixing bugs related to the native code integration. They added a utility for parsing color values in Android, and refactored bridge and runtime code to improve maintainability. Furthermore, the user also addressed issues in iOS and Android by modifying the native bridge and ensuring proper user agent appending, while also providing support for 'pod install' in VM based environments.
ios-androidpwaiosmobilecss
ionic-jp/capacitor-docs
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the web ⚡️
Contributions:35 commits in 28 days
react-nativejavascriptios-androidplatform-nativeandroid
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