Hi, I'm Billy Thomas
Employment History
HumanKind - Software Engineer
September 2022 - Currently Employed
svelte
sveltekit
AWS
Github Actions
AWS CDK
AWS DynamoDB
Opensearch
- Built an internal tool with sveltekit for customer success team to manage client settings
- Setup and maintained CI/CD pipelines for multiple frontend projects using Github Actions and AWS CDK
- Integrated client product data from multiple APIs (Shopify, Salesforce, etc) for shopping cart builder
AfterSchool HQ - Software Engineer
September 2020 - September 2022
C#
.NET
React
AWS
Azure Devops
YAML
SQL
- Managed a remote team of overseas developers with multiple projects
- Helped reduced total deployment pipeline time (commit to production) from ~40 min to ~15 min allowing a for a quick rollback recovery of 2 min
- Built and delivered code using mob/pair programming practices
- Optimized search page SQL query, bringing response time from several seconds to milliseconds
DeveloperTown Starts - Growth Engineer
January 2018 - June 2020
SQL
React
React Native
Python
OpenCV
Node.js
C#
AWS
Azure Devops
- Collaborated with a portfolio of startups to fulfill a variety of technical needs
- Created rapid iterative experiments to gather quick feedback
- Built a prototype for an image recognition app using react native + opencv
Developer Town Starts - Growth Engineer Intern
May 2017 - December 2017
SQL
React
Python
Node.js
d3.js
AWS
Azure Devops
- Collaborated with a portfolio of startups to fulfill a variety of technical needs
- Prototyped an org chart visualization using d3.js
Education
Butler University - B.S., Computer Science
August 2014 - December 2017
Projects
Emotion FM
September 2023
HTML
CSS
Javascript
Spotify API
Vercel
A retro-looking UI to looking up playlists on Spotify by "dialing" into your emotions
emotion.fmSmokey Frame
May 2020
AWS Lambda
AWS S3
Raspberry Pi
Node.js
Twilio
A digital picture frame you can SMS pictures to via an AWS Lambda function uploading to a S3 bucket. A present for mother's day so I can send my mom pictures of my dog, Smokey 🐶
Pickle - Running Bases
July 2016
Swift
A running bases games, where the player tries to tag the bases as many times as possible without getting caught on the base where the ball is. The two basemen throw the ball back and forth to whichever base the player is closest to.
