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Thomas Hunter II

@tlhunter

I came here to kick ass, build web applications, and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.

San Francisco, CA

Website

@tlhunter

Joined January 2011

655 Followers

29 Following

AI Insights & Achievements

61/ 100

Quality

Avg 26.5 stars per repo.

Consistency

23 day streak.

Veteran

Coding for 15 years.

Profile README

Staff Software Engineer with 18+ years writing scalable, production-grade software. Deep expertise in Node.js, observability, and developer tooling, with a strong track record of driving architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and improving customer facing technical documentation. Author of 5 books, certified JSNSD/JSNAD by the OpenJS Foundation, and frequent international conference speaker. Passionate about delivering reliable, maintainable software at scale.

Links

My personal blog with hundreds of posts
Talks / presentations I've given
My Mastodon account where I make frequent small posts
Map Buddy is a mobile web app of mine for posting geolocation-based messages

Books I've Published

Multithreaded JavaScript, O'Reilly, 2021
Distributed Systems with Node.js, O'Reilly, 2020
Advanced Microservices, Apress, 2017
Consumer Centric API Design, Blurb, 2014
Backbone.js Application Development, Packt, 2013

Organizations

DA NO GI NO MU

Public Repos

101

Total Stars

2647

Total Forks

596

Public Gists

35

Top Languages

Based on primary language of repositories

Recent Activity

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High productivity periods

Most active day: January 5th, 2026 • 5 contributions

Most active week: Jan 12–Jan 18 • 17 contributions

Most active month: Sep 2025 • 97 contributions

Pushed to tlhunter/websockets at DataDog/documentation

January 29th, 2026 10:50 PM

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January 29th, 2026 10:47 PM

PullRequestReviewEvent on DataDog/documentation

January 29th, 2026 10:47 PM

PullRequestReviewCommentEvent on DataDog/documentation

January 29th, 2026 10:47 PM

Pushed to tlhunter/process-tags-dsm-dbm at DataDog/dd-trace-js

January 28th, 2026 11:43 PM

Pushed to tlhunter/websockets at DataDog/documentation

January 28th, 2026 8:56 PM

Pushed to tlhunter/process-tags-dsm-dbm at DataDog/dd-trace-js

January 27th, 2026 8:44 PM

Pushed to tlhunter/process-tags-dsm-dbm at DataDog/dd-trace-js

January 27th, 2026 6:37 PM

IssueCommentEvent on DataDog/dd-trace-js

January 27th, 2026 4:57 PM

assigned pull request in DataDog/dd-trace-js

January 9th, 2026 11:50 PM

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Thomas Hunter II

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