Tom Hulihan
Principal Software Engineer at Lightspeed HQ
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Hulihan is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient backend systems, currently leading engineering work from Providence, Rhode Island. He progressed through hands-on roles at Upserve into leadership at Lightspeed HQ, bringing deep Ruby expertise and practical experience with API client design and pagination at scale. Tom has contributed to well-used open-source Ruby clients for Docker and Salesforce, adding automatic pagination, proxy support, and compatibility fixes that improve handling of large datasets and older runtimes. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he combines production-facing engineering with a taste for maintaining and modernizing libraries that other developers rely on.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
Github Skills (11)
salesforce-api10
rspec10
rest-api10
docker10
faraday10
dockers10
pagination10
ruby10
excon9
rails8
ruby-on-rails8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
upserve/docker-api
Jun 2013 - Mar 2016
A lightweight Ruby client for the Docker Remote API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:257 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on implementing the core functionality of a Ruby client for the Docker Remote API. Their contributions focused on creating the `Docker::Connection` class, which acts as a wrapper for the `RestClient::Resource` to interact with the Docker server. The user also added methods for the Container, and the Image classes that provide streamlined interaction with Docker. They updated the code to utilize the API and fixed versioning issues.
apiruby-clientrubydockerdocker-remote-api
restforce/restforce
Apr 2013 - May 2013
A Ruby client for the Salesforce REST API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on enhancing the pagination functionality of the Restforce library. They implemented automatic pagination traversal, made the pagination logic compatible with older Ruby versions, and ensured that the `pages` method returned a list of collections. Additionally, the user added proxy support by passing the proxy URI to the Faraday initializer. This work improves the library's ability to handle large datasets and provides increased compatibility.
apiruby-clientrubysalesforce-rest-apisalesforce
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