Griffith Thomas — Software Engineer

I am a full stack developer with three years of experience in application development, cybersecurity, and cloud computing. I am passionate about high-performance computing, reliable software, graphics, and Rust, and I am always eager to learn something new.

Outside of programming, I enjoy performing in the praise band at my local church, playing board games, and experimenting with virtual reality and whatever else catches my interest.

Why elegant? By elegant, I don't mean perfect or idealistic code. I mean applications that have been built with care and attention to detail, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience.

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Spyderbat

Jun 2024-Current
- Optimized request logic and compression for NoSQL database, improving read latency and reducing storage requirements by 2x
- Deployed a rearchitected data ingest method that reduced total cloud computing costs by 8-9%
- Developed a kernel-level eBPF program capable of real-time tracing of suspicious file accesses
- Planned and executed migration between database architectures with zero data loss or downtime
- Designed simulation testing framework for key-value database, significantly increasing reliability
- Designed and implemented a sample evaluation environment used in sales team demos
- Enforced OWASP best practices for containerized application and Kubernetes deployment security

May-Aug 2023
- Developed graph visualizations and dynamic tables for representing Kubernetes clusters in React JS
- Implemented a first-time customer checklist to introduce Spyderbat’s features to potential customers
May-Dec 2022
- Developed and presented a Python command-line application as an additional front-end for the Spyderbat API
- Implemented an internal administration dashboard for internal organization managment using React JS
- Generated DockerFiles for publishing of command-line applications through GitHub Actions
May-Aug 2021
- Produced a prototype back-end proxy server to offload computation from the client using Node JS and TypeScript
- Integrated support for the proxy server API into the existing front-end React application

Texas A&M University

Minors
- Cybersecurity, Mathematics
Engineering Honors
Undergraduate Research Scholars Thesis
Efficient GPU Implementation of Stable Position-Based Dynamics for Rigid Bodies
Coursework Highlights
- Cybersecurity Risk
- Cybersecurity Law and Policy
- Machine Learning

SANS Institute

Coursework Highlights
- Security Incident Handling & Hacker Exploits
- Public Cloud Security: AWS, Azure, and GCP

Certifications

GPCS - GIAC Public Cloud Security
The GPCS certification validates a practitioner’s ability to secure the cloud in both public cloud and multi cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
GCIH - GIAC Certified Incident Handler
The GCIH certification validates a practitioner’s ability to detect, respond, and resolve computer security incidents.
GSEC - GIAC Security Essentials Certification
The GSEC certification validates a practitioner's knowledge of information security beyond simple terminology and concepts.
GFACT - GIAC Foundational Cybersecurity Technologies
The GFACT certification tests knowledge of foundational cybersecurity concepts and practical skills in computers, technology, and security fundamentals.

Featured Projects

SPYDERTOP

Spydertop is a command-line application written in Python that provides HTOP-like functionality for times in the past. It uses Spyderbat's public APIs, which I configured to use OpenAPI as a part of this project.

Python
OpenAPI

CORGI

Corgi uses GPU compute shaders to calculate fractal images at extremely high speeds. It uses a perturbation formula to calculate the images with very high precision, allowing for extremely high levels of magnification. This image was rendered at a zoom level of 2⁹⁴, which is a 19,807,040,628,566,084,398,385,987,584 times magnification. The Vulkan-like library wpgu for GPU compute and renders the UI with egui.

Rust
Vulkan
GPU Compute

BLACKBOX

Blackbox is a proof-of-concept eBPF-based process tracing and analysis program for Linux. It runs any other program with an eBPF probe attached that tracks every system call the program makes. These system call events are then collected and analyzed to build a higher-level model of the program's behavior.

eBPF
Rust
Linux

RAY GRAPH

Ray-Graph is a 3D graph visualization web application. It uses dynamically-generated OpenGL shaders transpiled from user-defined LaTeX functions to render uncommonly structured functions that many other 3D graphing applications struggle with.

GLSL
JavaScript
LaTeX

C VS. RUST

A parallelized and vectorized implementation of the Mandelbrot set using both Rust and C for performance and code structure comparison. Both implementations are designed to have the highest possible performance while maintaining identical output.

Rust
C
SIMD
Multithreading

FRACTAL EXPLORER

This is the predecessor to Corgi, and is a desktop application for real-time fractal exploration written in Rust. It uses the same high-performance algorithm as used in the comparison of C and Rust, and uses progressive rendering for maximum responsiveness

Rust
Native Apps