Edward Thomson
Product Manager at Thomson Electromotive
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdward Thomson is a product leader and engineer with 14 years of experience building developer tools, CI/CD, and security products, currently focused on privacy and data security at Vanta. He has shipped core version control and hosting features across SourceGear, Microsoft, GitHub, and Vercel, and played a key role bringing GitHub Actions to prominence and integrating npm into GitHub. At Vercel he led product teams to GA for edge compute and storage offerings, and at Stacklok and as an investor/advisor he’s shaped developer-focused security and AI tooling. A long-time contributor and maintainer in low-level Git projects (notably libgit2) and to npm documentation, he blends systems-level engineering with product strategy. He’s also an author, speaker, podcast guest, and active open-source volunteer—someone who both writes the code that merges pull requests and builds the product teams that make that possible. Based in Cambridge, UK, he brings a rare mix of hands-on technical depth and cross-functional product leadership.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Computer Science, Mathematics Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignComputer Science Engineering, Computer Science Engineering at Parkland College
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Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
libgit2/libgit2sharp
Feb 2013 - May 2020
Git + .NET = ❤
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 198 commits, 210 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Edward focused on enhancing the functionality of the LibGit2Sharp library by implementing features such as retrieving and reading repository messages. They added tests to ensure proper staging of ignored files, resolving conflicts correctly within the Git environment. Furthermore, the user contributed to build processes by updating the .NET build and including dependencies to align with new libgit2 error codes and structures.
dotnetlibgit2version-controldotnet-core
libgit2/libgit2
Oct 2012 - Jan 2023
A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 releases, 303 reviews, 4617 commits in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Edward contributed code changes that focused on implementing code quality improvements. These changes include ensuring code correctness as well as refactoring code in areas that included the core infrastructure of the library. These changes are related to low-level memory structures that are used by a lot of the code, and include general error prevention.
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