Todd M
Software Engineer at thoughtbot
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd M is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 12+ years building web applications across startups, agencies, and enterprise teams, currently at thoughtbot. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL and has guided projects from greenfield builds to legacy modernization, HIPAA-compliant SQL optimization, and scaling to tens of millions of pageviews. Todd blends hands-on delivery with security and compliance leadership—he led SOC2 efforts and integrated AI-driven clinical workflows using Rails, Hotwire and FHIR. A disciplined test-first practitioner and contributor to prominent open-source tooling (adding unit tests to Firefox DevTools’ debugger), he favors human-centered collaboration and measurable engineering tradeoffs. Outside work he pursues Elixir/Phoenix side projects and brings a curious, interdisciplinary perspective informed by interests from cosmology to holistic healthcare.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Lewisburg High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
English, German
Stackoverflow
2,950reputation
499kreached
47answers
29questions
Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
devtools10
test-framework10
javascript10
jestjs10
developer-tools10
testing10
scala6
git6
php6
embedded-javascript6
sublime-text6
ejs6
ruby-on-rails6
http4s6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
firefox-devtools/debugger
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
The faster and smarter Debugger for Firefox DevTools 🔥🦊🛠
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Todd primarily contributed to the project by writing and adding unit tests. These tests covered various utility functions related to debugging, assertions, logging, clipboard functionality, path manipulation, and general utility functions. The focus was on ensuring the reliability and correctness of core utility functions within the Firefox DevTools debugger.
firefoxsmarterfasterdeveloper-toolsdebugging
stratigos/dailydoseofdio
Jun 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:595 commits, 237 pushes in 1 year
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