Drew Thomas

Drew Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer at CipherStash. Drew was previously an Engineering Team Lead at Assignar from July 2021 to March 2022. Prior to that, they were a Senior Software Engineer at Reading Eggs - Blake eLearning from June 2020 to June 2021, where they developed a greenfield service in Elixir for handling multiplayer functionality for education games including lobbies, game sessions, and player statistics. Drew also collaborated with game and product developers on API design and integration of multiplayer service. From July 2019 to April 2020, they were a Senior Software Developer at Expert360, where they established best practices, set the technical direction, and provided design feedback for the GraphQL API used across squads. Drew also migrated authentication system from legacy PHP application to Elixir to modernise the login experience, unblock authentication-related features, and pay back technical debt. From January 2019 to June 2019, they were a Technical Lead at Expert360. From April 2017 to December 2018, they were a Software Developer at Expert360. Prior to that, they were a Software Engineer at Nova Ventures, LLC from July 2016 to October 2016.

Drew Thomas reports to James Sadler, CTO. They are on a team with Ragib Badaruddin - Senior Software Engineer, Matt Palmer - Principal Engineer, and Bennett Hardwick - Senior Software Engineer.