Thomas Smith
Software Engineer at YAML Language Development Team
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Smith is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience building developer-facing tools, back-end systems, and CI workflows from Buffalo, NY. He has contributed to widely used open-source projects—improving JavaScript and HTML syntax highlighting for Sublime Text and hardening the PyYAML codebase and CI—demonstrating care for correctness, compatibility, and maintainability. His background spans full-stack work and DevOps, from automating syntax test generation to modernizing Python packaging and dropping legacy support. A long-time contributor to the YAML specification team, he blends standards-level thinking with hands-on engineering and a taste for untangling legacy code. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complex systems and ship durable, well-tested tooling.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
python10
testing10
cicd10
regular-expression10
babel-core10
yaml10
html10
babeljs10
syntax-highlighting10
jsx10
test-automation10
setuptools9
sublime-text9
flow-control9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sublimehq/Packages
May 2017 - Nov 2022
Syntax highlighting files shipped with Sublime Text and Sublime Merge
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 156 commits, 241 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the syntax highlighting files for JavaScript and HTML in the Sublime Text and Sublime Merge packages repository. Their work included improving language detection within `<script>` and `<style>` tags, overhauling binding declarations in JavaScript, fixing newline-related and comment bugs, and implementing the decorators proposal, and improving the scoping of entities in HTML and JavaScript. They also added and enhanced regular expression tests for JavaScript.
sublime-mergesublime-textsyntax-highlightingsublimesublime-syntax
babel/babel-sublime
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
Syntax definitions for ES6 JavaScript with React JSX extensions.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:23 releases, 35 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Thomas focused on developing and maintaining syntax tests for the Babel Sublime Text package. They added new tests for JavaScript (Babel) syntax, JSX, string object keys, and Flow types. The user automated test generation using a Python script, enhancing the testing process by generating tests based on configurations and automatically building syntax. Their work ensures the correct syntax highlighting of JavaScript and related features in the Sublime Text editor.
javascriptjsxreact
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