// full-stack engineer, multi-disciplinary designer, and problem solver

Thomas Jones

I build fast, reliable software — from APIs to pixel-perfect UIs.

TypeScriptReactNext.jsViteWebpackRollupTurborepoTauriElectronPWAStorybookNode.jsGraphQLExpressFastifyRustPHPPostgreSQLMySQLSupabaseRedisDrizzlePrismaNATSInfluxDBOpen APIAsync APISwaggerDockerKubernetesAWSGCPGitHub ActionsGitLab CIArgoLokiGrafanaPrometheusFigmaAdobe CSPlaywrightJestVitestReact Testing LibraryAXEDrupalWordPressWebflowShopifyTypeScriptReactNext.jsViteWebpackRollupTurborepoTauriElectronPWAStorybookNode.jsGraphQLExpressFastifyRustPHPPostgreSQLMySQLSupabaseRedisDrizzlePrismaNATSInfluxDBOpen APIAsync APISwaggerDockerKubernetesAWSGCPGitHub ActionsGitLab CIArgoLokiGrafanaPrometheusFigmaAdobe CSPlaywrightJestVitestReact Testing LibraryAXEDrupalWordPressWebflowShopify
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// career

Experience

/* where I've shipped production software */

1const job = {
2  role: "Manager, UI Software",
3  company: "Axiom Space",
4  from: "2022", to: "present",
5  impact: "Led 11-person UI team"
6}
1const stack = [
2  "React", "TypeScript",
3  "NATS", "InfluxDB",
4  "PostgreSQL"
5]
Axiom Space2022 → present
1const job = {
2  role: "Owner / Director of Technology",
3  company: "Dogwood Media Solutions",
4  from: "2019", to: "2022",
5  impact: "$0 → $1M+ revenue in 3 years"
6}
1const stack = [
2  "Next.js", "React",
3  "WordPress", "Drupal",
4  "Node.js"
5]
Dogwood Media Solutions2019 → 2022
1const job = {
2  role: "Web Developer & Graphic Designer",
3  company: "NIC Inc. / Alabama Interactive",
4  from: "2015", to: "2019",
5  impact: "Modernized state-agency web presences"
6}
1const stack = [
2  "PHP", "Drupal",
3  "JavaScript", "TWIG",
4  "MySQL"
5]
NIC Inc. / Alabama Interactive2015 → 2019

// open source & side projects

Featured Projects

/* things I've built and shipped outside of work */

nightdrift↗

Generative lofi radio for sleep. Procedural Web Audio with no samples, no backend, and seamless scene transitions.

Next.jsWeb AudioTypeScript
Active · 2026
sim-sat↗

Satellite simulation and telemetry platform with 3D visualization, real-time WebSocket feeds, and a Turborepo monorepo.

TypeScriptReact Three FiberTurborepo
Active · 2025
GamePlan↗

Youth basketball coaching companion. Manage rosters, drills, practices, and live game tracking with Supabase auth.

Next.jsSupabaseTypeScript
Active · 2026
NASCAR Tracker↗

Real-time NASCAR race statistics app. Live leaderboard, flag status, and lap data refreshing every second from the official feed.

Next.jsTailwind CSSTypeScript
Stable · 2025
Draftable↗

Basketball draft calculator with snake-draft pick recommendations, custom scoring, and Supabase-backed multi-draft support.

ReactSupabaseTypeScript
Stable · 2025
Phase 10 Tracker↗

Multiplayer Phase 10 scoreboard. Track each player's current phase, progression through all ten hands, and who's leading the round.

ReactViteTypeScript
Active · 2025

// thoughts on software

Writing

/* long-form posts on engineering, systems, and craft */

Real-time telemetry on the web: sockets, streams, and the stuff in between
A tour of how live data actually gets from a sensor to a browser tab, and why the right answer depends on what you're measuring.
ArchitectureJun 2026
Why I stopped using ORMs for complex queries
A practical case for dropping the abstraction and writing SQL directly, and the tooling that makes it pleasant.
SQLApr 2026
The sync engine pattern for modern web applications
Why the most resilient apps don't wait for the server, and how to build the layer that keeps local and remote state honest.
ArchitectureMar 2026
The case for boring infrastructure
How choosing well-understood tools over cutting-edge ones saved our team hundreds of hours of debugging.
DevOpsJan 2026
Type-safe SQL in TypeScript without an ORM
Walking through querycraft's design: how we achieve full type inference from raw SQL strings.
TypeScriptNov 2025
Twelve things I'd tell my junior-dev self
Lessons from seven years of shipping software: on feedback loops, naming things, and saying no.
CareerSep 2025

// background

Resume

/* available for senior & staff-level roles */

↓ resume↓ portfolio
Thomas Jones
Manager, UI Software  ·  Full-Stack & Creative
thomas@spanread.com
334.546.6603
Friendswood, TX
Experience
Manager, UI Software
Axiom Space · Oct 2022 – Present
  • Established a React-based multi-modal proprietary UI system for the Space Station Program
  • Built novel integrated Mission Operations tooling and an integrated Suit Simulation trainer
  • Completed Station UI software critical design review with NASA
  • Led a multidisciplinary team of 11 across UI/UX research, design, development, and test
  • Designed NATS/Influx-based telemetry ingestion & visualization, plus a bi-directional Postgres sync engine for space ↔ ground
Owner / Director of Technology
Dogwood Media Solutions · Jan 2019 – Oct 2022
  • Co-founded a B2B agency spanning print, web, audio, video, photography, social, and branding
  • Grew from 2 to 15 employees and $0 to $1M+ in revenue within 3 years — zero debt
  • Owned 300+ active client accounts; final approver on creative and technical delivery
  • Set design and development direction across all engagements
Web Developer & Graphic Designer
NIC Inc. / Alabama Interactive · Aug 2015 – Jan 2019
  • Designed and managed NIC Alabama’s brand and marketing materials across print and digital
  • Delivered custom design and development for Alabama’s largest state agencies
  • Maintained consistent brand and UX across multi-agency platforms; modernized state web presences
Skills
Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptPHPSQL
Frontend
ReactNext.jsRemixViteTauri
Backend
Node.jsGraphQLDrizzlePostgreSQLRedis
Infra & QA
DockerKubernetesGitHub ActionsPlaywrightAXE
Design
FigmaAdobe CSStorybook
Education
Design Technology & Innovation
Troy University · Troy, AL
2009–2015
Certifications
Google UX Design
Sprout Social Management
Proficiency Details
Extended technical & creative capabilities
Multi-Disciplinary Design
UI / UX Design
  • Figma · 7+ years
  • Adobe Creative Suite · 13+ years
  • End-to-End Creative & Art Direction · 8 years
  • Figma mockups and interactive prototyping
  • User research
  • Data-informed design decisions
  • Content inventories
  • Digital fine arts
  • Storyboarding + ideation
  • Iterative revisioning
Full Stack Development
Front End Experience
  • React JS / TypeScript · 9+ years
  • HTML / CSS / JS · 13+ years
  • Progressive web applications — service workers & manifests
  • Next.js
  • Spec-driven development — Open API, Async API, Swagger
  • Native application wrappers — Tauri, Electron
  • WebSockets — NATS, Redis
  • Front-end build tooling — Vite, Webpack, Rollup, Turborepo
  • Context-based responsiveness
Back End Experience
  • ORM development / migrations — Drizzle, Prisma
  • Node.js / Express / Fastify
  • GraphQL
  • Redis
  • Rust
  • Docker / containerization
  • AWS / GCP
  • API security & authentication
  • Postgres / MySQL / Supabase
Content Management Experience
  • Drupal CMS web development
  • WordPress development
  • Webflow
  • Static site generation — Docusaurus, Storybook
  • Performance monitoring — Loki, Grafana, Prometheus
Testing Infrastructure
  • JavaScript test tooling — Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library
  • End-to-end testing — Playwright
  • Accessibility testing — AXE
  • Unit, integration, performance, and cross-browser testing
Release Management
  • CI/CD pipeline implementation — GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
  • Automated release versioning & changelog management
  • Clustered deployments — Argo, Kubernetes
  • Compliance testing — CMMI
Digital Marketing
Google Services
  • Analytics & Tag Manager setup
  • Ad management
  • SEO specialist · 7 years
  • User flow analysis
Misc Experience
  • Storybook beta testing
  • WP Engine partner status
  • iOS application development
Project Management
  • Agile project methodology adoption
  • Git — including stacked merge train and flow methodology
  • Project tracking — Jira, ClickUp, Linear
  • Technical documentation — Confluence, Jama, Innoslate
  • Team leadership, planning, and budgeting
  • Sprint planning
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Risk management
  • Resource application
  • Code review
Introduction
A brief overview of how I work and what I bring

I am a decisive, creative thinker with a keen eye for detail-oriented design and a passion for progress. My background spans the new space industry, design innovation, advanced full-stack development, government procurement, and adapting to evolving business requirements in rapidly changing environments.

I am drawn to teams building the future through bleeding-edge technology — places where flexibility, exposure to new tools, and meaningful work come together. That intersection of craft and impact is where I do my best work.

Over the past few years, I have built and managed a successful UI/UX team, fostering a highly collaborative environment that produced genuinely unique creative solutions. Even so, the drive to push myself — to keep innovating and evolving — remains central to how I think about my career. I bring world-class design, modern development, creative vision, founder-level business experience, and an integration-first mindset to every team I join.

I believe we are at a moment where progress toward the accessibility of advanced technological systems will expand dramatically. I want to apply everything I have learned about building simple solutions to complex problems toward work that moves industries forward.

My resume captures the highlights, though the breadth of my experience across design and development is difficult to sum up. The proficiency tab goes deeper — and I welcome the chance to walk through any of it in greater detail.