Thomas Davis
Product Engineer (AI Focus) at Independent Contractor
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Davis is a product-focused engineer with 14+ years building full-stack products and open-source platforms from the ground up, now specializing in generative AI and agent infrastructure. Based in Melbourne, he ships LLM-powered applications using Vercel AI SDK, designs structured-output LLM pipelines, and implements vector search, RAG systems and MCP agent tooling running on GCP/Kubernetes. A serial founder and community builder, he co-created CDNJS (serving hundreds of billions of requests monthly) and founded the JSON Resume standard with a large active user base. He combines rapid prototyping and product instincts—moving from front-end UX to production cloud infra—to prioritize shipping and user feedback. Unusually, his background spans high-scale public infrastructure, political tech campaigns and niche startups, giving him both growth-stage and community-driven engineering perspective.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering at The University of Queensland
English
Github Skills (7)
server-side10
nodejs10
javascript10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
expressjs8
html5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cdnjs/new-website
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
🖥 cdnjs.com website
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3410 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on back-end modifications, specifically related to the `/news` endpoint and data sorting within a server-side Javascript file. They implemented sorting functionality for updates, added a sponsored list, and fixed existing issues related to data retrieval. Furthermore, the user added a chat link back into the website's layout template.
cdnnextjsjavascriptcdnjsapi
cdnjs/old-website
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:191 commits, 192 pushes in 2 months
visitcssjavascript
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