Tom Hanks
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarTom Hanks is a software engineer with 11 years of experience based in Sunnyvale, California, currently building software at Microsoft. He blends front-end polish and back-end integration skills, contributing notable open-source work such as UI/UX improvements and keyboard-driven navigation for the LANraragi reader and source normalization and tag management for the high-profile Danbooru Rails project. Comfortable across stacks, he has a demonstrated knack for refactoring legacy code, shipping pragmatic fixes, and automating content ingestion from diverse sources. Colleagues would describe him as detail-focused and product-minded, often smoothing edge-case behavior (like spacebar navigation bugs) that improves day-to-day usability. He brings both large-company engineering discipline and active community contributions to his work.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
reader10
keyboard-shortcuts10
back-end-development10
shortcuts10
rails10
ui-design10
ruby10
front-end-development10
html10
data-integration10
apidoc9
css9
api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
danbooru/danbooru
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
A taggable image board written in Rails.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 188 commits, 195 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom made several contributions to the Danbooru project, primarily focused on enhancing source integration and normalization. These contributions included adding support for new image sources such as Hentai Foundry, Weibo, Fanbox, Foundation, Plurk, and Skeb. The user refactored and expanded source normalization logic across multiple sites, implemented tag management features and fixes for known issues. The contributions demonstrated a deep understanding of content aggregation and data processing within the Rails framework.
danboorurailsimageboardbooruimage-board
Difegue/LANraragi
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Web application for archival and reading of manga/doujinshi. Lightweight and Docker-ready for NAS/servers.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 21 commits, 10 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and navigation features of the web application. Their contributions include implementing keybindings for reader navigation, fixing a spacebar navigation bug, and refactoring settings and overlay elements. The user also addressed code style issues, and added infinite scrolling reader functionality. Furthermore, they incorporated keyboard shortcuts to access various features.
comicsweb-applicationdocker-readyreadermojolicious
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