Summary
Thomas Wheeler is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of documented experience and over two decades of hands-on software development across languages and platforms including Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, C#, C++, Spring Boot microservices, and cloud environments like Azure and IBM Cloud. He excels at translating business needs into maintainable, high-quality software and has a strong background in architecture, CI/CD, DevOps, and distributed systems from roles at Magnite, Swiftly, and Improving. A pragmatic technical leader and mentor, Thomas prioritizes code quality, developer productivity, and practices such as TDD and Agile to lift team performance. His career spans embedded and middleware systems through modern cloud-native services, reflecting a rare blend of low-level systems experience and contemporary microservices architecture. Based in Frisco, Texas, he’s driven by continual learning and has a professional interest in programming language design and tooling that improves developer workflow.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer