Preston Thompson
Software Engineer at Span
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPreston Thompson is a founding engineer and seasoned software developer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native systems, data infrastructure, and product-facing backend services from startup to scale. Based in Austin, he led Braze’s move to Kubernetes, introduced Terraform and GitOps practices, and built their initial Kafka-based streaming platform and real-time Snowflake integrations. He combines hands-on implementation—designing deployment and canary systems and shipping core product features like Braze Canvas—with a strong focus on developer experience and operational clarity. Comfortable across the full software lifecycle, Preston pairs deep engineering craft with an eye for pragmatic automation that reduces human error in complex multi-cloud environments. An MIT CS graduate, he brings both research-minded problem solving and production-hardened delivery to early-stage product engineering.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDu Pont Manual High School
Github Skills (20)
ruby-client9
deprecated9
kafka8
ruby7
apache-kafka7
helm6
charts5
kubernetes5
web-application4
server-side4
static-site3
appboy3
aws3
hosting3
full-stack2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
prestonwrthompson/ruby-kafka
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:7 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
apache-kafkaclient-libraryruby-clientrubyapache
avogel/thompson_nfa
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 2 days
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