Thomas Blight Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Training & Coaching Engineering Team

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Music Curation Tech teamFull-stack web development, dev ops, design & implementation. Project scoping & management. Company-wide language support and team mentorship including design review, hiring and promotion.
• Improved internal playlist curation website with search via Amazon OpenSearch search index
• Contributed to cross-company Ruby support, documented upgrade tutorials for multiple ruby version support. Upgraded shared Amazon-internal ruby packages for Ruby 3.1.
• Reviewed designs by junior engineers, mentored junior engineers, assessed engineers for promotion to senior, conducted interviews for senior engineers.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Playlists, Xray & Lyrics team, Music Curation Tech team Full-stack web development, dev ops, design & implementation. Project scoping & management. Drove process improvements in inherited code via code style, code.
• Designed and implemented UI and persistence for music experts to define "Flagship Stations", a curated radio-like experience
• Drove process improvements in inherited code via code style, code coverage, unit testing requirements
• Designed and implemented extensible globalization of expert-curated playlists, extending them from 7 major markets to more than 50 territorial markets.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Playlists TeamFull-stack web development, dev ops, design & implementation. Implemented APIs for CRUD operations on customer playlists, learned Ruby and assumed implementing Ruby on Rails website, for music experts to.
• Implemented APIs for CRUD operations on customer-owned playlists with pagination
• Migrated playlist storage from legacy storage to hybrid DynamoDB and S3 solution
• Implemented Ruby on Rails website for music experts to draft & publish curated playlists to customers.

Seattle

• Internship with Music Content & Community team
• Designed and implemented a project to improve deduplication of MP3 recommendations
• Made business-impacting decisions based on experimental results and analysis.
• Delivered reliable code using the philosophy of Test-Driven Design (TDD).

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Maintained the Globe and Mail website in a Kanban-style team.
• Implemented new analytics categories for the distribution of hits to the website.
• Technologies used include JQuery and Java Server Pages (JSP).

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Implemented and debugged Java and JavaScript code.
• Fixed HTML and CSS layout issues.
• Designed user interface elements.

Paris, Ontario, Canada

• Automation of data migrations into Microsoft GP
• Customization of report and bill printing for municipalities and utility companies.