Topher Lamey
Senior Software Engineer at ThriveHive
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTopher Lamey is a senior software engineer and seasoned technology leader based in Denver with over a decade of experience building and shipping reliable web and distributed systems. He blends hands-on full-stack development—Java/Spring backends, JWT auth, and UI work with Thymeleaf/Bootstrap—with leadership roles from engineering manager to director and VP-level positions. Currently at StackHawk and serving as Director of Engineering at ThriveHive, he focuses on improving delivery practices and secure, maintainable software. An active open-source contributor, he’s added a Redis provider and locking fixes to the well-regarded ShedLock project and intentionally built a vulnerable Spring app to teach authentication and security concepts. Trained in distributed OO development and Unix/C systems programming, he pairs deep technical roots with a musician’s creativity from a background in electronic music and piano.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Pascal Programming, Pascal Programming at DeAnza CollegeUniversity of California Santa CruzUnix Systems Programming, C/C++, Unix Systems Programming, C/C++ at University of California, Santa Cruz ExtensionCertificate of Advanced Study in Distributed OO Application Development, Certificate of Advanced Study in Distributed OO Application Development at University of Denver, University College
Github Skills (24)
redis10
jedi10
user-authentication10
authentication10
spring-security10
basics10
java10
javas10
thymeleaf10
spring-boot10
jwt10
rest-api10
distributed-locking10
gam10
distributed-lock10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kaakaww/javaspringvulny
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
javaspringvulny - a Spring Boot web application built wrong on purpose
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Topher primarily focused on enhancing the application's authentication and user interface. They integrated form-based authentication using Spring Security and made UI improvements using Thymeleaf and Bootstrap. Additionally, the user added REST API functionality with JWT authentication, as well as UI components. The user also added UI elements for JWT, token and basic auth.
spring-bootweb-applicationpurposespringspring-boot-web
lukas-krecan/ShedLock
May 2017 - May 2017
Distributed lock for your scheduled tasks
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Topher primarily contributed to adding and enhancing a Redis-based distributed locking mechanism for the shedlock project. Their commits include implementing a Redis provider, cleaning up naming conventions, adding information to the lock value, and fixing the expire logic. The user also made changes to the key generation environment and cleaned up whitespace.
distributed-locklockscheduled-tasksdistributed
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