Tommy Byrd
Software Engineer at GitHub
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTommy Byrd is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub with a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems for developer-facing products, currently focused on GitHub Pages. He blends hands-on expertise in Nginx, OpenResty, Let's Encrypt, Ruby on Rails, and Go with systems architecture know-how that supports millions of sites and billions of monthly requests. Tommy’s background spans solutions engineering, cloud infrastructure, and broadcast production—where he pioneered paid livestreaming for Dragon Con—bringing a pragmatic mix of operational rigor and product empathy. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved tooling and integrations across projects like probot and Jira connectors, and he often bridges front-end UX, documentation, and backend automation. Based in Alpharetta, GA, he pairs an unusual audio/visual production lens with strong cloud and networking instincts to solve real-world scaling challenges.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Record Industry Management, Computer Science, Music, Bachelor of Science, Record Industry Management, Computer Science, Music at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
Github Skills (39)
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
scripting10
probot10
typescript10
regex10
ruby10
api10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
documentation10
api-design9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
probot/smee-client
Dec 2017 - May 2022
🔴 Receives payloads then sends them to your local server
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 36 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tommy primarily contributed to the frontend and backend of the `smee-client` project. They implemented features to display the connection status of the event stream, incorporating visual feedback using React components. Additionally, the user updated the client-side code to handle query parameters correctly and added functionality to conditionally load Sentry for error tracking. Further, they introduced an environment variable to ban specific channels.
payloads
atlassian/github-for-jira
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
DEPRECATED (moved to private repository) - Connect your code with your project management in Jira
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:115 commits, 70 PRs, 158 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tommy primarily contributed to back-end development, focusing on integrating the GitHub for Jira application. They updated the Jira development info API, refactoring routes to version 0.10 and a new format. The user implemented features such as adding updateSequenceId to commits and repositories, and also added tests to ensure functionality, enhancing the data synchronization process between GitHub and Jira. Further, they worked on an initial sync flow for commits and pull requests.
integrationjiraatlassianproject-managementtrello
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