# Thomas Stapleton > Forever embracing the title of student Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/thomasstapleton Capable in individual contributor and management roles. A full-stack software engineer who applies technology to solve business problems, contributes in all phases of the product lifecycle, and believes in quality over quantity. A manager who builds engaged and productive teams, and prioritizes people, process, product – in that order. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Crunchbase Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Staff Software Engineer @ Tradeshift Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States • Created prototypes to streamline enrollment in Tradeshift Cash. Wrote documents covering why and how to implement the features, got buy-in from leadership to move forward, and led the team in development. • Improved how product and engineering teams implement scrum. Researched the current processes used by teams, debated better practices with leadership, authored the Agile Blueprint, defined the approach for rollout, and launched the new processes with teams. • Furthered a culture of continuous learning. Started a Slack channel for people to to share things they learned recently and encourage sharing and learning in a remote environment in an asynchronous fashion, and created Tech Talks Together for people to get together to watch a technical video and discuss how we could apply something we learned. • Influenced teams to work better. Promoted writing planning documents for each epic so we could better understand the work needed to deliver features, and encouraged teams to start using sprint goals as a way to focus the team on a single shared goal and improve feature delivery. ### Director of Engineering, US @ Tradeshift Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California • Led a team to a successful MVP launch of Tradeshift Go. Architected a product that survived numerous pivots and team changes, adapted to changing product requirements while meeting short deadlines, and built a collaborative, productive, happy, and engaged team. • Created the career ladder at Tradeshift: Engineer Growth Framework. Researched the domain, defined how Tradeshift should approach the topic, collaborated with stakeholders, wrote documents for engineers and guides for managers, defined how to conduct the evaluations, created spreadsheets for performing evaluations, rolled the program out to the SF office, and conducted evaluations for about 10 engineers. • Identified a business opportunity and started the DX team to focus on making third-party developers successful. Built a system to unify API documentation from many microservices into a single Tradeshift API, and led team in developing a new app management product. • Promoted better practices for remote working. Stressed the value of writing things down, created an accommodating meeting schedule for the team, scheduled regular team social activities, started a Slack channel #tell-us-about to encourage connections and sharing across the company, and encouraged async communication. ### Software Engineer @ Tradeshift Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA • Defined the strategy for a migration to a new app framework. Presented the strategy to company leadership for how to migrate our core apps, sold a vision that got everyone on board where there were many differing opinions, appointed as the tech lead over three SF teams porting apps to the new framework, provided direction for delivering features, and wrote a lot of code used by other teams. • Led the development of a vendor management product. Developed signup flows for sellers, configurable seller registration forms, management workflow for the buyer, and integration with an ERP, built in close collaboration with an important customer that included calls and on-site visits to determine features, live demos of progress, and support after launch. • Earned the Scrum Master certification. Presented on how our team could improve our processes, implemented changes within our team that lead to more effective meetings and better sprints, taught other teams in the office how to do scrum, and encouraged colleagues to attend the course. • Developed and launched a Supply Chain Finance product to explore the area of invoice financing as a potential business for Tradeshift. Built seller onboarding, document eligibility criteria, buyer and seller dashboards, and management interfaces. ### Designer and Developer @ CleverTech Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 • Designed and developed a business planning application to improve usability and performance by creating reusable design components, building functional mockups in HTML/CSS/JS and leading a team of developers in implementing the mockups using backbone.js • Brought related data to light in a redesign of a press release management application by learning current workflows and designing functional mockups that provided context-sensitive data and shortcuts that made working in the application faster and easier • Managed a team of 3 in creating a minimal viable product in 30 days of a financial registry website using 4 week-long iterations, daily calls with the developers to stay on track and clear blocks, and daily calls with the client to keep priorities aligned and progress transparent • Analyzed existing data and workflow to help build a custom inventory management application by learning business entities and rules, creating wireframes for user interactions, and validating development by testing ### Web Developer for Baker Hughes Incorporated @ Infosys Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Houston, TX • Highlighted the need for a user interface designer and self-filled the role by starting a pattern library, rapidly developing working prototypes, and setting the expectation for mockups before Java development begins • Advocated for adoption of agile processes and quickly became ScrumMaster, responsible for collection of user stories from the business, managing the development planning meetings, organizing the daily stand ups, delivering the demo meetings to the business, and ensuring our retrospective meetings cause growth • Developed a method to automate data loading using SQL scripts and Excel macros so the process could be handed off to the business for self management, resulting in time savings and a decrease in support issues ### Global Product Champion for Baker Hughes Incorporated @ Infosys Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Houston, TX • Redesigned the education program to teach a web application to non-technical users using simple, hands-on exercises in a controlled training environment, allowing the educators to quickly assess learning in real time and provide consistent and repeatable examples to all students • Organized and delivered training classes and application deployments in Angola, Azerbaijan, Canada, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Norway, Russia, Singapore and the United States • Developed a deployment map using Drupal 6 and OpenLayers to better visualize the 2011 global deployment schedule across many educators, dates, regions and product lines, and to communicate the plans to external teams within the organization • Worked with users to define requirements, then created screen mock ups for implementation by the offshore development team • Wrote SQL queries and developed Excel reports to retrieve and present data in a clear way that answered specific user questions • Provided support to the global user base by fixing application data, providing clear steps to accomplish a task, and investigating system issues ### Software Engineer @ Infosys Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 • Five-month training program in India with an emphasis on Java and J2EE, graduated with a 4.93 GPA • Implemented a Data Access Object layer using OpenJPA to effectively store objects in a database • Gave an educational presentation to senior developers on OpenJPA, a new technology for Infosys at the time, and created a short training class with exercises on the topic for knowledge transfer ### Designer and Developer @ 3.ZERO Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Houston, TX • Designed and developed studio website using Drupal 7 with Context, Feeds, Nodequeue, Services, Views, Webform, and a custom subtheme based on Omega • Researched Agile methods and ideas to design standard project phases and processes, and communicated them to the business partner to improve execution, planning and communication • Implemented Open Atrium, an intranet built using Drupal, to manage internal communications and to manage communications, progress updates and deliverables with clients in a central location • Developed an influencer marketing solution for Topo Ranch using Drupal 6 with CCK, Views, Activity Stream, Advanced Profile Kit, Panels, Token, Webform, and custom CSS for styles • Designed and developed custom Shopify themes using HTML, CSS, Liquid, JavaScript and jQuery • Responsible for administration of a CentOS server hosting many of our completed projects ### UCSU Finance Director @ University of Colorado at Boulder Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Boulder, CO • Restructured financial reports to demonstrate better organization and increase understandability among all members of the student union, providing transparency on a consistent basis • Educated UCSU Executives and Officers in proper fiscal spending of their $400,000 yearly budget • Led an extended transition period after my term ended to ensure the new officer was fully trained and the automated procedures that were developed continued beyond my term in office ### Data Analyst @ Smith Breeden Associates Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Boulder, CO • Began implementation of a database to efficiently handle complex financial data for ABS issues • Read ABS issue documents to retrieve specific information for use in Excel financial models ## Education ### Bachelor's in Computer Science, Finance University of Colorado Boulder ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thomasstapleton - Portfolio: http://tstapleton.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/thomasstapleton JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/thomasstapleton/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12