Tommy Vinyard
Senior Software Engineer at Drillbit (YC S24)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Vinyard is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with 8 years of experience building scalable, cost-conscious web and serverless applications. With a BS in Physics and Astronomy, he applies a researcher's rigor to product engineering—turning complex problems into elegant React/Node and AWS-based solutions. He helped cut operational costs dramatically by implementing single-table DynamoDB designs and has driven reliability improvements across enterprise platforms at Oracle. Comfortable across the full stack, Tommy blends Python, JavaScript, Java, and cloud services to ship production systems and automated tests. Now at YC-backed Drillbit, he brings startup velocity informed by leadership experience as a Lead Engineer. Outside work he identifies as a developer and adventurer, suggesting a practical curiosity that fuels both code and exploration.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics and Astronomy, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics and Astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (9)
react6
peer-to-peer5
ipfs5
p2p4
firebase4
react-native3
nodejs2
mongodb2
scraper2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tpvinyard/outcache
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Peer to peer outdoor equipment rentals
Contributions:12 PRs, 62 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
ipfsreactp2poutdoorpeer-to-peer
tpvinyard/TheLiquorCabinet
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Enter the ingredients that you have in you cabinet and we will give some drinks that you can make!
Contributions:45 PRs, 37 pushes, 16 branches in 1 month
reactreact-nativefirebaseingredientsdrinks
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