Tomás Touceda is a Director of Engineering with 16 years of experience leading teams to deliver secure, pragmatic software under resource constraints. He pairs hands-on backend and security engineering—contributing to notable open-source work like Fleet's host-data and API security improvements—with a talent for surfacing what motivates individual contributors to optimize work allocation. Tomás has repeatedly scaled engineering organizations across startups and product companies (ShipHero, Fleet, SpiderOak) while prioritizing process improvements that remove menial tasks so engineers can focus on higher-impact work. Based in Argentina, he brings a mix of technical depth (C++, privacy, backend security) and operational leadership, plus a long-standing open-source mindset dating back to Tor and Gentoo contributions.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura Computer Science, Licenciatura Computer Science at Universidad Nacional del Sur
Open-source platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams. (Linux, macOS, Chrome, Windows, cloud, data center)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Contributions:1194 reviews, 409 commits, 499 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Tomás primarily focused on implementing and improving backend functionality related to host data and API security. Their work included fetching and displaying comprehensive host information, enhancing API authentication with distinct error messages, and refactoring error handling for better extensibility. Additionally, they contributed to the security aspects of the project by differentiating authorization errors and working on security-related bug fixes.
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