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Thomas Countz

@thomascountz
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Software Engineering

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Robotics

Black Lives Matter

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I’m a maker. I love electronics, mechanics, computer programming, robotics, Space and storytelling. My research has three purposes: to make, to learn, and to share.

My day-to-day work as a Senior Software Engineer on the Ruby Core team at Zendesk allows me to dive deep into the world of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Open source!

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I'm open to

guest lecturing,

content creation,

speaking at events,

open source contributions,

and speaking on podcasts.

Resume

Nov 2021 - Present

Senior Software Engineer, Zendesk

Apr 2018 - Oct 2021

Senior Software Engineer, 8th Light

Sep 2017 - Apr 2018

Ruby on Rails Developer, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine

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Into the Unknown Unknowns: Observability with Charity Majors The speed of development and change in software engineering enables exponential growth and innovation. It can also give rise to ever-inc...

Know Your History: Ethical Source with Coraline Ehmke Coraline is our guest this week on Collaborative Craft. She shared what it was like in the early days of the Internet and how the smoking loung...

It's a Process: More than Machine Learning with Hana Lee Machine learning is only as good as the humans who create the program. Even machines have biases. Hana Lee is a Principal Software Crafter a...

Sargable Queries & MUL Indexes; or Why My Query is Slow You're on Ops. Debugging Error-s in Invoicing Rails app, as usual. They're stored in MySQL, and accessed through ActiveRecord and some helper...