Thomas Brewer

Responsible for shepherding the development of and individually contributing to multiple Elixir applications vital to the success of Hatch. Instrumental in introducing Kanban-like processes, achieving a notable 66% increase in productivity while cultivating enhanced communication and collaboration among team members. Facilitated better collaboration between engineers and sequencing of work which reduced the amount of rework that needed to be done. Spearheaded strategic efforts to streamline architecture and modernize platforms, by implementing a new frontend in NextJS and consolidating APIs which reduced the dependency on Hatch's legacy platform, positioning the organization for future growth and innovation.

Contributed to an React application with an Elixir/Absinthe GraphQL API, gaining valuable expertise in the process. Notably, I did work integrating Blockit with EMRs. Additionally, I led efforts to refactor and improve the management of referral statuses and I developed key features such as referral automations and the enhancement of provider availability and scheduling.

Handled planning, assisting teammates, code reviews, microservice development, CI automation, debugging, and feature development across multiple frameworks and languages like Ruby on Rails, Phoenix/Elixir, Elm, and Vue. Led vital projects that created multiple Elixir microservices to support the legacy platform, led a team to build a new Elixir application to handle patient coordination services, revived a virtual triage system, and migrated the infrastructure to Kubernetes on AWS for scalability during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Led engineering teams handling diverse projects, ranging from large-scale web applications to high-traffic websites. Notably, directed the development of various applications for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund which included a donation, messaging, event, and scholarship applications, alongside a centralized member database that all applications connected to.