# Thomas Burgess Email: [email protected] https://github.com/ThomasBurgess2000 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jthomasburgess --- ### Lead Software Engineer *MeetKai, Jan 2025 - Present* - Architecting a scalable API for our AI platform, with a focus on real-time translation, chat, and facial recognition. - Creating web and Android apps that build on our AI platform's SDK. ### Technical Lead *MeetKai, Dec 2020 - Jan 2025 - Lead development of [bitnile.com](bitnile.com), architecting full-stack solutions using Next.js and Babylon.js. - Manage a team of 8 engineers, driving technical decisions and mentoring junior developers. - Architected and implemented browser-based metaverse platform, for companies such as [BYD](https://byd-metaverse.mkms.io/), [Sony](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8zJ_4dDaD8), [DRL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKZfZXieDXw) and the [Charlotte Hornets](https://hornets.mkms.io/?map_id=1676933990&shard_id=76). ## Data Team Lead *MeetKai, Jul 2021 - Mar 2022* - Led team of 3 engineers in building data acquisition pipelines. - Wrote systems in Go and TypeScript to scrape, parse, and export data from various sites at scale. ### Software Engineer *MeetKai, Dec 2020 - Jun 2021* - Worked on the backend team. - Wrote code in Go and Python for NLP, data aggregation, and automation features. ### Software Engineer Intern *Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, May 2020 - Dec 2020* - Worked on the F-35 weapons team, completing coding, testing, and debugging tasks in C++. - Led effort to automate the build and test processes using Jenkins and Python. --- ### Bachelor of Computer Science *Biola University* - 3.9 GPA, Stewart Science Honors Program, Torrey Honors College --- Experienced with **TypeScript**, **Next.js**, **Go**, **Temporal**, **React**, **Python**, **Babylon.js**, **Prisma**, **C++**