Tina Maria Thomas
Software Engineer at Thoughtworks
Summary
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RockstarTina Maria Thomas is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience, currently contributing at Thoughtworks with a focus on backend and security engineering. She has practical expertise hardening developer workflows, notably contributing to the popular open-source talisman project that detects secrets in commits and configurable detector severity and ignore patterns. Tina combines pragmatic code refactors and build tooling updates with security-first features, demonstrating an ability to improve both efficiency and safety in CI/pre-commit pipelines. Colleagues rely on her to translate security requirements into usable developer safeguards that reduce risk without slowing delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
it-security10
git10
go10
precommit10
pre-commit-hook10
git-hooks10
security10
yaml9
regex9
docker8
testing8
cicd8
dockers8
husky7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtworks/talisman
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
Using a pre-commit hook, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious — such as tokens, passwords, and private keys.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 19 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tina primarily contributed to the security and functionality of the `talisman` project, which focuses on identifying potential secrets in code. Their work included implementing features to ignore certain file content based on defined patterns, and configuring severity thresholds for the detectors. They also updated the build script and refactored some code to make it more efficient.
pushtokensgit-hookshuskygo
tinamthomas/talisman
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
By hooking into the pre-push hook provided by Git, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious - such as authorization tokens and private keys.
Contributions:9 PRs, 66 pushes, 26 branches in 3 years 2 months
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