Tom Troyer
Software Engineer at Simon Property Group
Kokomo, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolTom Troyer is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with over 10 years' experience building and maintaining enterprise web applications using Java, PHP, Spring, and modern testing practices. Currently at Simon Property Group, he focuses on internal tools and backend systems, leveraging his background in Spring Boot and Java EE to deliver reliable, well-tested software. Previously he served as the de facto technical lead for a large Verizon retailer, mentoring teammates and owning application and database design across PHP and Java stacks. Tom is active in open-source testing improvements—refactoring Exercism’s Java exercises to use AssertJ—demonstrating a commitment to test quality and maintainable code. Based in Kokomo, Indiana, he combines hands-on implementation skills with a habit of modernizing legacy tests and systems to reduce technical debt.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Purdue University
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/java
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Exercism exercises in Java.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom's primary contributions revolve around converting existing Java exercises to use the AssertJ assertion library. This involved refactoring unit tests in various exercises, including resistor-color, RNA transcription, clock, two-fer, atbash-cipher, bob, beer-song, house, hamming, hangman, hello-world, hexadecimal, isbn-verification, isogram-checker, kindergarten-garden, and knapsack, to improve readability and maintainability. Their work demonstrates a focus on test suite modernization and improving the quality of testing within the Exercism Java track.
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thtroyer/simple-text-generator
May 2018 - Jun 2022
Generate text with machine learning. Tensorflow + textgenrnn based scripts.
Contributions:4 releases, 19 PRs, 120 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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