Thompson Marzagão
Director Of Engineering, Developer Productivity at The New York Times
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolThompson Marzagão is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building developer platforms and shaping engineering culture, currently directing Developer Productivity at The New York Times from Austin. He leads a diverse organization of 20 engineers and managers, driving platform initiatives that let teams ship production-ready services in under 10 minutes and achieved a platform NPS of 72 across multiple departments. A hands-on technologist who has built Golang automation, standardized CI/CD with Drone and ArgoCD, and migrated monorepos to Kubernetes/GKE, he blends operational rigor with strategic hires—doubling his department during periods of rapid change. Known for pragmatic empathy, he champions sustainable work practices like asynchronous collaboration and remote-first hiring that broadened recruiting globally. Thompson pairs deep delivery engineering expertise with a track record of improving release frequency and reducing toil, while quietly piloting process innovations such as a 24-hour fast-track hiring offer.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of MichiganStuyvesant High School
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
3,766reputation
109kreached
13answers
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Github Skills (37)
transcode10
video-encoding10
transcoding10
api10
encoding10
cloud-services10
multimedia9
templating6
ruby-on-rails6
lift6
ranking6
string-matching6
capistrano6
similarity6
ruby6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
marzagao/marzagao.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
nytimes/encoding-wrapper
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 14 PRs, 33 pushes in 11 months
golangprovidersencodingcloud-providersvideo
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