Thomas Gorham

Billing, Platform, Infra, Security

• Built and maintained Stripe billing systems scaled to thousands of customers.
• Designed and maintained a horizontally scalable realtime collaborative document editing system backed by CRDTs (Prosemirror & Yjs).
• Represented engineering and served as security officer through two years of SOC 2 certification.

• Led electrical design of a Yocto Linux and FPGA-powered marine radar, including the memory-mapped VHDL processing system, on the Xilinx Zynq platform.
• Led a cross-functional team delivering the marine industry's first L1/L5 band GPS sensor, from design through manufacture.
• Built automated hardware test systems in Python (GPIB, SCPI, UDP) to speed up development and standardize testing practices.

• Designed embedded hardware and firmware across marine (Bluetooth HID, FPGA radar control) and aviation (certified audio processing) product lines.
• Built Python and VHDL test tooling to validate hardware and firmware functionality.