Thomas Hansen
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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RockstarThomas Hansen is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, cost-conscious systems across startups and large tech firms. He has driven measurable impact—cutting database costs and CPU usage, standardizing observability across dozens of services, and maintaining 99.99% uptime for customer-facing platforms. His background spans backend architecture, migrations from monoliths to microservices, and production-grade security and authorization work inspired by Google’s Zanzibar model. A practiced mentor and hiring lead, he’s coached new hires and interviewed extensively while leading teams through Kubernetes and cloud migrations. Based in Lehi, Utah, he pairs a knack for pragmatic performance tuning with a history of delivering cryptographic accounting and realtime fraud signals, showing both systems-level depth and attention to operational detail.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (99)
reverse-proxy10
expressjs10
jsonb10
testing10
http10
security10
caddy10
webserver10
microservices10
admin-interface10
hosting10
javascript10
middleware10
caddyfile10
worker-pool10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thomas4019/thomashansen.me
Sep 2016 - Jun 2026
Contributions:41 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 11 months
thomas4019/nodewonder
Dec 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:130 commits, 15 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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