Khalil Isaiah Thomas

Overview

I lead developer tools at Westbrook Financial in San Francisco. Shipped 19 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback. Most at home with TypeScript and Rust. I teach a weekend class on compilers.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Apr 2024 - Present
   Westbrook Financial · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Moved 64% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Shipped 8 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
2. Staff Software Engineer

   Nov 2020 - Apr 2024
   Ford · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Built the experimentation framework 9 product teams use to ship changes safely.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Jan 2017 - Oct 2020
   Fidelity Investments · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 817ms to 119ms.
   • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 68 million requests a day.
4. Software Engineer

   May 2014 - Jan 2017
   Expedia Group · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Moved 94% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Software Engineer

   Oct 2012 - May 2014
   Nike · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 5.

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Education

1. Ohio State University

   BA, Mathematics
   2008 - 2012