Byron Thomas

Hi, I'm Byron. I'm excited to be involved in helping you all out. I've always enjoyed explaining things to others and breaking things down, and as an experienced team leader I have had to do that often for people at different levels of experience & knowledge.

I do get excited about the academic / nitty gritty side of technologies, which is why I've enjoyed working in a wide range of programming languages, stacks and styles. I think knowing quite a few languages helps me to understand the fundamental concepts in a more deep way, which means I can explain them better and help finding the tool for the job. Having said that, I don't think tech exists in a bubble and because of that I've typically worked in application-type / product-type development, rather than platform / system-type development. I like to be involved in solving the real world problem, which may need more or less technology than it first seems!

For clarity I have commercial experience in all of (in rough order of currently live knowledge): JavaScript, Python, Clojure, React, Pandas, Databases, SQL, AWS, Data warehousing, Terraform, Azure, Graph databases, F#, Flask, Infosec requirements, Django, Operations, Prometheus, Java, C#, C, Solidity, Ruby

Please bear in mind that most of my work experience is in private companies, and often in the financial sector, and I haven't so far done a lot of open-source. So you won't find lots of my code on github in public. But I have been coding and leading at the highest levels for more than 2 decades, so I'm happy to try and explain the things I've been working in more detail if you'd like.