Thom Neale
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolThom Neale is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, now at NVIDIA after a multi-year principal role at MITRE and data engineering work in finance and legal-tech. He focuses on backend systems, data storage and retrieval, scientific computing, and data visualization, with a particular interest in legal information workflows stemming from early roles in court reporting and legislative analysis. Thom contributes to notable open-source projects such as the Vertica Python client, improving Python 3 compatibility, TLS support, and cursor behavior for real-world analytics workloads. Comfortable bridging domain expertise and infrastructure, he has shipped production systems for government, finance, and startup settings. Based in Bedford, Massachusetts, he blends rigorous technical problem-solving with an uncommon legal-data perspective that informs how he models and surfaces complex information.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Vh.D., Logic, Vh.D., Logic at Vulcan Science AcademyBA, Political Science, BA, Political Science at Point Loma Nazarene UniversityPre-K Certificate, Pre-K Certificate at Ayn Rand School for TotsWilliam Aberhart High SchoolJD, JD at University of California, Hastings College of the Law
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Github Skills (13)
debugging10
databases10
driver10
python10
vertica10
database10
testing9
psycopg7
datetime6
django-models6
urllib6
dictionary6
django6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vertica/vertica-python
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
Official native Python client for the Vertica Analytics Database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Thom primarily focused on improving the functionality and compatibility of the Vertica Python client. Their contributions include fixing issues related to cursor behavior, particularly with dictionary-based cursors, and addressing compatibility problems related to Python 3, notably regarding MD5 authentication and handling unicode strings. They also introduced improvements for TLS connections. The user also performed some test-related tasks.
databasepythonverticadriver
twneale/pypscl
May 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 11 months
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