Thomas Wickham
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolThomas Wickham is an operations and AI leader based in Paris with 13 years of experience bridging software engineering, product delivery, and customer-facing operations. Currently at Synopsis he helps organizations become feedback-driven by automating the capture, categorization, and summarization of user insights to make customer voice actionable. His background spans hands-on backend work (including notable Rust contributions to the colored-rs terminal library and a lightweight LDAP server) and leadership roles in DevOps, product strategy, and sales operations at companies like Scalingo and FeetMe. A former software craftsmanship coach and podcast host, he combines pragmatic engineering practices (TDD, code reviews, infra as code) with a talent for translating technical complexity into business impact. He’s as comfortable refactoring core libraries as he is designing processes that scale teams and customer success.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Code Review training Software Craftmanship, Code Review training Software Craftmanship at Octo AcademyBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at EPITA: Ingénierie InformatiqueClean Code training Software Craftmanship, Clean Code training Software Craftmanship at OCTO Academy
French, English, Chinese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
ldap10
configuration-management10
authentication10
user-authentication10
ansi-term10
logging10
rust10
ansi-escape10
ansi10
command-line-interface9
command-line9
cli9
testing8
actix-web7
refactoring7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
colored-rs/colored
Mar 2016 - Apr 2019
(Rust) Coloring terminal so simple you already know how to do it !
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 18 commits, 39 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `colored-rs/colored` library, introducing new features such as disabling color output and enhancing the internal structure to handle styles and color application. They addressed a bug related to the escape sequences within nested colored strings. Furthermore, they refactored and improved code related to color control, adding functionality to manage colorization behavior via environment variables and manual overrides. They also added an implementation of `FromStr` for the `Color` enum.
rustcratesterminalansi-term
lldap/lldap
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Light LDAP implementation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 pushes in 4 days
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed to the development of a lightweight LDAP server. Their work involved setting up the project's initial structure using `clap` for command-line argument parsing and configuration management. They implemented configuration loading from various sources, including TOML files and environment variables, and integrated logging capabilities using `tracing` and `tracing_subscriber`. The user also added the basic structure for a TCP server and an LDAP server implementation.
ldapauthenticationopaquerustsecurity
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