Thomas Burgess

Email: [email protected]
https://github.com/ThomasBurgess2000
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jthomasburgess

Lead Software Engineer

MeetKai, Jan 2025 - Present

• Single-handedly made the iOS and Android companion apps, the backend voice services, the marketing website, and customized the RTOS firmware for an upcoming AR glasses platform.
• Architecting a scalable API for our AI platform, with a focus on sandbox infrastructure for agents.
• Creating web and mobile apps that build on our AI platform's SDK.

Technical Lead

MeetKai, Dec 2020 - Jan 2025

• Lead development of 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, Sony, DRL and the Charlotte Hornets.

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++