Thomas Camlong

Software Engineer

Founding-minded software engineer building AI products, developer tooling, and open-source software from zero to production. I enjoy owning products end-to-end, solving hard engineering problems, and working closely with users to build intuitive experiences that solve real problems. I use modern AI tooling to accelerate development while relying on strong engineering fundamentals to build reliable, maintainable systems.

Professional Experiences

Full-Stack Software Engineer at Habs AI

Full-time · Paris, France

  • Led development of the company's AI platform powering enterprise neuroscience studies, integrating proprietary brain signal models with frontier LLMs to generate structured insights.
  • Built a centralized operations platform managing participant bookings, laboratory workflows, questionnaires, and study execution, reducing operator workload by 70%.
  • Designed a highly configurable participant screening platform with behavioral analytics, reducing study setup time by 50% while giving customers real-time visibility into participant journeys.
  • Built internal evaluation tooling, reducing feature validation cycles from hours to minutes and enabling significantly faster experimentation and real-world model evaluation.
  • Architected and deployed production AI infrastructure on Azure Marketplace using MCP, agents, and modern LLM tooling to orchestrate proprietary ML models and frontier language models for the main insights product.
  • Represented the company at VivaTech 2025 and 2026, showcasing the product to thousands of attendees and partnering with Microsoft.

Skills: React · TypeScript · LLMOps · Dataviz · Agentic Framework · Context Engineering

Founding Engineer at Kodu AI

6 months · Freelance · Tokyo, Japan

  • Joined as the first engineering hire, architecting the full-stack platform powering an AI coding assistant serving 10k+ active users and 5k+ paying customers.
  • Developed core features for the VS Code extension, helping grow the open-source project to 5.3k+ GitHub stars while shipping product updates on a daily release cadence.
  • Built LLM infrastructure and agent workflows integrating frontier models, enabling rapid experimentation driven by continuous customer feedback and community engagement.
  • Designed product engagement systems that improved user retention and contributed to Kodu becoming one of the top 5 applications on OpenRouter.

Skills: TypeScript · React · LLM Infrastructure · AI Agents · Product Engineering · VS Code Extension

Software Engineering Intern at Datadog

6 months internship

  • Developed features for Datadog Dashboards using React, TypeScript, and the company's internal design system.
  • Implemented a redesign of the dashboard sharing experience, aligning interactions with familiar collaboration patterns used by tools such as Google Drive, significantly increasing feature adoption.
  • Participated in design discussions, code reviews, and large-scale frontend migrations across a production codebase.

Skills: React · TypeScript · Redux · React Query · CI/CD

Founder & Lead Maintainer - Homarr

  • Founded and architected an open-source self-hosted dashboard with 10k+ GitHub stars, 50M+ Docker pulls, and 74 contributors.
  • Built and grew an international open-source community of 6k+ Discord members, coordinating contributions from 234 translators across 29 languages.
  • Led product direction, architecture, release management, and developer experience while building AI-assisted contributor tooling for faster community development.
  • Designed and implemented an MCP server enabling AI agents to manage Homarr instances through natural language.

Skills: TypeScript · React · Open Source · Product Architecture · Developer Experience · MCP

Founder - DashboardIcons.com

  • Built and monetized an icon library containing 3,000+ high-quality dashboard icons.
  • Grew organic search traffic by an average of 30% month-over-month, reaching 2.5M+ monthly search impressions.
  • Built the platform from scratch and drove SEO strategy, resulting in 10M+ monthly page views.

Skills: SEO · TypeScript · Next.js · Product Engineering · Entrepreneurship

React Developer Intern at CreativeLift

6 months internship

  • Built 80+ reusable React and Material UI components powering the company's design system.
  • Introduced Storybook for component documentation, improving developer experience and accelerating UI development.
  • Collaborated closely with designers to deliver consistent interfaces using React, Next.js, and TypeScript across client projects.

Skills: React · Next.js · TypeScript · Material UI · Storybook

Technical Skills

Programming Languages
Primarily: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Node.js
Frontend
React, NextJS, TailwindCSS, Vite
Backend
PostgreSQL · Redis · Hono · NestJS · Docker · Kubernetes · RabbitMQ · Cloudflare · REST APIs · Go
AI & Machine Learning
TanStack Agents SDK · Vercel AI SDK · Mastra · MCP · Azure AI Foundry · Hugging Face · vLLM · RAG

Education

Epitech - Master's Degree in Computer Science

Epitech is an IT school focused on learning programming with a hands-on project-based learning approach. It is well known for its hard "piscine" intensive training period.

Shibaura Institute of Technology

Student exchange year realized in Tokyo, Japan. SIT is the only private university of science and technology selected for the Japanese government's exclusive Top Global University Project.