https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis

resume.json

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    "lastModified": "2026-07-22T00:00:00.000Z"
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  "basics": {
    "name": "Thomas Davis",
    "phone": "+61 411 021 021",
    "label": "Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer",
    "image": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/416209?v=4",
    "summary": "Full stack developer with 15+ years building products at startups and in open source — founder of JSON Resume, co-founder of cdnjs. These days I mostly build with LLMs: agent infrastructure, MCP tooling, structured-output pipelines, and a GPT trained from scratch in TypeScript and Vulkan just to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. I ship fast and let user feedback steer.",
    "url": "https://ajaxdavis.dev",
    "email": "thomasalwyndavis@gmail.com",
    "location": {
      "city": "Cairns",
      "region": "Queensland",
      "countryCode": "AU"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "username": "ajaxdavis",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/ajaxdavis",
        "network": "twitter"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://github.com/thomasdavis",
        "username": "thomasdavis",
        "network": "github"
      }
    ]
  },
  "education": [
    {
      "endDate": "2009-12-12",
      "startDate": "2008-02-12",
      "area": "Software Engineering (incomplete)",
      "studyType": "Bachelors",
      "institution": "The University of Queensland"
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "reference": "Thomas was hired as a lead developer and, upon the leaving of our co-founder took over as CTO of Earbits. Thomas is, hands down, one of those A Players you hear of companies dying to hire. He is incredibly smart, not just at code but about everything from classical music to Chinese language and culture. Thomas is great to work with and, as a well established contributor to open source projects and several successful ventures, commands the respect of engineers at all levels. I would suggest doing anything you can to have him on your team.",
      "name": "Joey Flores, Co-founder and CEO of Earbits, Inc."
    },
    {
      "reference": "I've had the great pleasure of working with Thomas for the past three years at Earbits, and on a few side projects. Two years ago our CTO left on a moment's notice, Thomas saved our company by quickly stepping up to fill this role. He has been with our company through thick and thin and made serious personal sacrifices in order to help the company during tough times. He is a phenomenal hacker and a true team player. Highly recommended!",
      "name": "Yotam Rosenbaum, SVP of Operations, Earbits, Inc."
    },
    {
      "reference": "Thomas is an extremely talented engineer with a very broad range of skills and experience. From being a thought leader in the front-end community via backbonetutorials.com and cdnjs.com, to designing and implementing the API for cdnjs.com, working with Thomas has been fantastic learning experience. Thomas is truly a full stack develop, and his work output is incredible. If there is any opportunity to work with Thomas, I take it. He is the definition of an A player.",
      "name": "Ryan Kirkman, Senior Software Engineer at Nerdwallet"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "AI & LLMs",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "Vercel AI SDK",
        "OpenAI API",
        "Anthropic API",
        "Google Gemini",
        "Structured Outputs",
        "Tool Calling",
        "Embeddings / Vector Search",
        "RAG Pipelines",
        "LLM Reranking & Evals",
        "AI Agents",
        "Model Context Protocol (MCP)",
        "Claude Code Skills",
        "Prompt Engineering",
        "LLM Training (from scratch)",
        "Autograd / Tensor Operations"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Frontend",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "React",
        "Next.js",
        "TypeScript",
        "JavaScript",
        "HTML / JSX",
        "Tailwind CSS",
        "Styled Components",
        "Redux",
        "Apollo / GraphQL",
        "Electron",
        "Three.js",
        "Backbone.js"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Backend",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "Node.js",
        "Go",
        "Rust",
        "Python",
        "Ruby on Rails",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "MongoDB",
        "Redis",
        "Supabase",
        "REST APIs",
        "WebSockets",
        "Deno"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Cloud & DevOps",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "Google Cloud Platform (GCP)",
        "Kubernetes",
        "AWS",
        "Docker",
        "Vercel",
        "Railway",
        "Heroku",
        "GitHub Actions",
        "CI/CD Pipelines",
        "Serverless",
        "Cloudflare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Architecture & Tooling",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "Monorepos (Turborepo)",
        "System Design",
        "API Design",
        "Microservices",
        "Real-time Systems (Pusher / Yjs)",
        "CLI Tools",
        "npm Package Publishing",
        "Open Source Maintenance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Low-Level & GPU",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "C",
        "Vulkan",
        "SPIR-V Shader Generation",
        "GPU Compute",
        "Mixed Precision (FP16)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "Defender of the Internet",
      "awarder": "Fight For The Future",
      "date": "2014-10-02",
      "summary": "For my work against mass surveillance and building out civic tools for digital democracy."
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [
    {
      "organization": "MobTranslate",
      "position": "Creator & Maintainer",
      "url": "https://mobtranslate.com",
      "startDate": "2024-12-07",
      "summary": "Open-source Aboriginal language platform: community dictionaries with advanced search, real-time AI translation, a neural voice/TTS stack, and an Android keyboard, with support for 1,200+ language codes.",
      "highlights": [
        "300+ commits since 2025 — elder-friendly portals, hosted adapters, release automation",
        "Earlier related work: an open-source computer-vision model to identify the Australian Aboriginal Flag (2021)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "highlights": [
        "This resume is built with JSON Resume",
        "7,000+ GitHub stars across the project's repos; tens of thousands of users",
        "Built the AI registry: embedding-based job matching against live Hacker News hiring posts — hybrid retrieval + LLM reranking with a gold-set eval harness that lifted P@5 from 0.2 to 0.8",
        "52 first-party themes rendered server-side, with render and section-coverage CI gates on every one",
        "Maintain the published packages: @jsonresume/schema, resume-cli, @jsonresume/jobs, @jsonresume/core, json-resume-serde (Rust)"
      ],
      "summary": "JSON Resume is the open standard for resumes as JSON. I founded it in 2014 and still run it. What started as a schema is now an ecosystem: a registry that renders any resume in 52 themes, AI job matching that embeds your resume and scores it against live Hacker News hiring posts, an in-browser editor, an MCP server that updates your resume while you code, and a Claude Code skill that interviews you and hunts for jobs on your behalf. The whole thing lives in one open source monorepo.",
      "url": "https://jsonresume.org",
      "pinned": true,
      "name": "JSON Resume",
      "position": "Founder",
      "startDate": "2014-04-01"
    },
    {
      "summary": "Contracting with early-stage startups to ship generative AI products end to end. I build LLM pipelines with structured outputs, vector search and RAG systems, MCP servers and agent tooling, and run the production side on GCP and Kubernetes. Startups bring me in when they need an AI product taken from idea to production without a big team.",
      "url": "https://ajaxdavis.dev/",
      "name": "Independent (contract & advisory)",
      "location": "Melbourne",
      "position": "Product Engineer — AI",
      "startDate": "2021-05-05",
      "highlights": [
        "Vercel AI SDK / OpenAI / Anthropic",
        "Structured outputs, embeddings, vector search",
        "MCP servers and AI agent infrastructure",
        "GCP / Kubernetes / Cloud Infrastructure",
        "React / Next.js / TypeScript",
        "Node.js / PostgreSQL / Supabase"
      ]
    },
    {
      "summary": "Tokenized is a Bitcoin wallet for issuing, managing and trading digital tokens. I built the frontend, shipped as an Electron app. The hard part: keys never leave the user's machine, so all transaction and contract signing happens locally — which meant getting key management and security right in the UI layer.",
      "url": "https://tokenized.com/",
      "name": "Tokenized",
      "location": "Melbourne",
      "position": "Senior Javascript Developer",
      "startDate": "2020-05-05",
      "endDate": "2021-05-05",
      "highlights": [
        "React",
        "Redux",
        "SCSS",
        "Product"
      ]
    },
    {
      "summary": "Blockbid is an Australian crypto currency exchange. I started off on the frontend but eventually became tech lead and worked on every moving piece of the exchange. I really enjoyed working with liquidity providers and connecting their platforms to help us achieve liquid markets.",
      "url": "https://platform.blockbid.io",
      "name": "Blockbid",
      "location": "Melbourne",
      "position": "Senior Javascript Developer",
      "startDate": "2018-03-01",
      "endDate": "2020-01-01",
      "highlights": [
        "React, Apollo, Styled Components",
        "Node.js / Rails",
        "Docker / Heroku / GCP",
        "Used Figma for design and UX work",
        "Optimizing markets with tens of millions of rows using SQL."
      ]
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Worked with Postgres, Redis and Dynamodb for storage.",
        "Hosted on a mixture of Heroku Apps and EC2 servers.",
        "Caching by Fastly and Cloudflare",
        "Hybrid app supported on all platforms"
      ],
      "summary": "Built a large React/Redux application that runs everywhere — web, iOS and Android — as a PWA wrapped in a thin React Native shell. One codebase, every platform.",
      "url": "https://listium.com",
      "pinned": true,
      "name": "Listium",
      "position": "Developer",
      "startDate": "2016-01-01",
      "endDate": "2018-01-01"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Developed new tools for contacting congress",
        "Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about issues",
        "Lots of social networking integration"
      ],
      "summary": "Hired to take EFF's campaigning to the next level by building an action centre in Ruby on Rails. The action centre is built around some large open source tools that lower the barrier to entry when contacting congress.",
      "url": "http://www.eff.org",
      "name": "Electronic Frontier Foundation",
      "position": "Developer",
      "startDate": "2014-04-01",
      "endDate": "2016-01-01"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Managed a small team of developers and designers",
        "Built the entire frontend application with Backbone.js",
        "Transferred all of the infrastructure from Heroku to AWS"
      ],
      "summary": "Started off as a front end developer but took on the role of CTO in early 2013. The application frontend is built with Javascript and organized as a single page application that talks to a collection of Rails web servers which are connected to MongoDB.",
      "url": "http://www.earbits.com",
      "name": "Earbits",
      "position": "CTO",
      "endDate": "2015-01-09",
      "startDate": "2013-03-08"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Generated 37,000,000 banner views",
        "100,000 phone calls to congress",
        "500,000 emails",
        "250,000 signatures"
      ],
      "summary": "Worked on many politically charged campaigns against mass surveillance. Not only technically challenging work but also a lot of networking and getting my hands dirty with politics. Our biggest campaign was \"The Day We Fight Back.\"",
      "url": "http://www.taskforce.is",
      "name": "Taskforce.is",
      "position": "Developer",
      "startDate": "2013-06-01",
      "endDate": "2016-01-01"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Over two million unique visitors a year",
        "25,000+ ebook downloads",
        "300,000+ Youtube views"
      ],
      "summary": "I write tutorials and blog post regarding the popular Javascript framework Backbone.js. The tutorials cover a range of topics regarding front end development aimed at beginners, experts and anyone in between.",
      "url": "http://backbonetutorials.com",
      "name": "BackboneTutorials.com",
      "position": "Founder",
      "startDate": "2011-01-01",
      "endDate": "2014-01-01"
    },
    {
      "summary": "Ephox is a worldwide company who is heavily involved with the development of TinyMce and enterprise editors. My primary role included building front-end widgets and applications. Worked on a major product using Backbone.js as a base. Heavily involved in UI/UX design and wire-framing. Also spend a lot of time designing API specifications and documentation.",
      "url": "http://ephox.com",
      "name": "Ephox",
      "position": "Front-end Developer",
      "endDate": "2012-06-01",
      "startDate": "2011-01-01"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "TPMJS",
      "startDate": "2025-06-01",
      "description": "The Tool Package Manager for AI Agents. An open-source registry and execution platform that automatically discovers, validates, and runs npm packages as AI agent tools via MCP, SDK, or CLI.",
      "highlights": [
        "Auto-discovers npm packages with tpmjs keyword",
        "Sandboxed tool execution via Deno runtime",
        "MCP aggregator for connecting tool collections to Claude, Cursor, etc.",
        "Agent platform for building, sharing, and forking AI agents"
      ],
      "url": "https://tpmjs.com"
    },
    {
      "name": "Omega",
      "startDate": "2025-06-01",
      "description": "Self-evolving AI Discord bot with 80+ specialized tools, multi-database architecture, and autonomous development capabilities. Built with Vercel AI SDK, Discord.js, and Next.js.",
      "highlights": [
        "80+ AI tools including code execution in 42+ languages",
        "Self-evolution capability — analyzes behavior and proposes improvements via GitHub issues",
        "Dual database architecture (PostgreSQL + MongoDB)",
        "AI-powered decision making for natural conversation participation"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/thomasdavis/omega"
    },
    {
      "name": "Alpha",
      "startDate": "2025-09-01",
      "description": "From-scratch GPT training and inference system built in TypeScript with a hand-written C Vulkan addon for GPU compute. No PyTorch or TensorFlow — custom tensor backend, autograd, tokenizers, training loop, and inference engine.",
      "highlights": [
        "Custom tensor backend with tape-based reverse-mode autodiff",
        "Hand-written Vulkan GPU backend with TS-generated SPIR-V kernels",
        "Full training pipeline: BPE tokenizers, checkpointing, eval, sampling",
        "OpenAI-compatible chat API, CLI, web dashboard, and TUI"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/thomasdavis/alpha2"
    },
    {
      "name": "Blocks",
      "startDate": "2025-11-01",
      "description": "AI coding validator with semantic guardrails. A development-time validator that lets AI agents write code freely while maintaining consistency through domain semantics and multi-layer validation.",
      "highlights": [
        "Domain specification via blocks.yml for entities, signals, measures, and rules",
        "Multi-layer validation: Schema, Shape, and AI-powered Domain checks",
        "Semantic feedback loop for AI coding tools",
        "Drift detection between code and specification"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/thomasdavis/blocks"
    },
    {
      "name": "Toiletpaper",
      "startDate": "2026-04-01",
      "description": "Adversarial scientific-paper replication engine. Extracts a paper's claims into a statement graph, compiles them into typed replication units — metric recomputes, dataset integrity checks, equation checks, simulations — executes them, and emits verdicts: reproduced, contradicted, or fragile.",
      "highlights": [
        "Ran the KAN (Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks) paper through it: 102 claims extracted, 24 reproduced, 3 contradicted",
        "Built on Donto, a bitemporal knowledge graph that tracks what's known, when it was learned, and with what confidence"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/thomasdavis/toiletpaper"
    },
    {
      "name": "llm-benchmark",
      "startDate": "2025-07-01",
      "description": "CLI that generates LLM-optimized variants of your functions, validates them for functional equivalence, and benchmarks them across providers. Published on npm as llm-benchmark.",
      "highlights": [
        "Self-validating: generated variants are proven functionally equivalent before benchmarking",
        "Cross-provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama) and polyglot (JS/TS, Python, Rust, Go)",
        "TUI plus built-in cost analysis"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/thomasdavis/llm-benchmark"
    },
    {
      "name": "cdnjs",
      "startDate": "2011-01-08",
      "description": "Co-founded cdnjs, a free CDN for the JavaScript libraries Google's CDN didn't carry. Community-moderated and open source; we partnered with Cloudflare, who now runs the infrastructure.",
      "highlights": [
        "Used by millions of sites in production",
        "Serves JS/CSS assets to a double-digit share of all websites — billions of requests a month",
        "10,000+ GitHub stars"
      ],
      "url": "https://www.cdnjs.com"
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Native speaker"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Gardening",
      "keywords": [
        "Lazy Gardening"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Music",
      "keywords": [
        "Guitar",
        "Singing",
        "Dancing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Books",
      "keywords": [
        "Reading",
        "Writing",
        "History"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Open Source",
      "keywords": [
        "All of it"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

@npzap it looks like that theme is broken in general. The way you currently have it formatted should work, but it depends on the theme.