Thomas Thelen
Software Engineer
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Thelen is a junior backend software engineer based in Corvallis, Oregon, with a Techdegree in Python Development from Treehouse and 11 years of professional experience shaped by roles that demanded teamwork and risk-aware cooperation. He specializes in Python and Flask, is proficient with Git, and is actively deepening his database skills with SQLite and Postgres to strengthen web application backends. A former backpacking instructor and kayak guide, he brings practical leadership, situational awareness, and a collaborative mindset to engineering teams. Curious by nature and drawn to problem-solving, Thomas collects puzzles and enjoys peeling back the "smoke and mirrors" of web systems—an inclination that informs his interest in mathematics and graph technologies. He’s eager to contribute to new or ongoing projects and shares curated and evolving work on his portfolio and GitHub.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, Bachelor's degree, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS at The Evergreen State CollegeTreehouse
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
ecology10
unpack10
cracking10
metadata10
webextension10
cpp10
doi10
neo4j10
arctic10
directed-acyclic-graph10
open-data10
reversing10
neo4j-database10
usermode10
assembly10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
zizroc/villager
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
villager is an extensible agent based modeling (ABM) framework for the R language. It supports agents, agent aggregations and their associated resources, as well as flexible data management.
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 148 commits in 2 years 3 months
agent-based-modelingaggregationsrr-languagesimulation
DataONEorg/gnis-deployment
Jul 2021 - Oct 2025
GNIS deployment
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 4 months
deployment
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