Thomas Upton
Technical Lead at Wizehire
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolThomas Upton is a Technical Lead with 17 years building front-end, full-stack, and back-end web applications, currently leading engineering at Wizehire from Austin, TX. He specializes in React, JavaScript, GraphQL, and UI design while also contributing Python, Go, and Clojure expertise to resilient service architectures. Thomas is adept at API design, CI/CD and automated testing, and excels at thinking beyond individual components to improve interactions across large distributed systems. His background includes shaping cloud and ops tooling at DataStax and front-end architecture at Shipwell, giving him deep product-to-infrastructure perspective. Comfortable with a decade of remote work, he’s practiced at asynchronous collaboration and prioritizing impactful work with product teams. He’s curious by nature — “I like more things than I don’t” — and continually learns new technologies to keep practical engineering approaches current.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
1,871reputation
159kreached
65answers
4questions
Github Skills (155)
bash10
grep10
vim10
command-line-tool10
javascript10
unix10
cluster-manager10
alfred-workflow10
cli10
makefile10
alfred10
user-experience10
tmux10
zsh10
fzf10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tupton/react-query-lunch-and-learn
Jul 2021 - Sep 2025
A presentation on React Query and how we can use it at Shipwell
Contributions:18 reviews, 8 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 3 months
queryreactpresentationreactjsreact-query
tupton/advent-of-code
Dec 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.