thm-design - Overview

_{Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area • Authorized to work in Canada}

22 years spanning ActionScript → LAMP → MACH → AI-Native architectures. I step into ambiguous situations and create stability. Currently building multi-agent AI systems and leading engineering for Fortune 500 companies.

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🏔️ Arc'teryx Mobile

Staff Engineer • 2024

CIAM migration for 1.2M+ users
Zero-downtime ForgeRock → Okta
React Native + Design Tokens

🎬 Disney Studio One

Principal Engineer • 2023-2024

C-suite platform stability
5 timezone distributed team
Design token pipeline automation

🤖 Isla AI Agents

Co-Founder • 2024-Present

Multi-agent orchestration
AWS Bedrock + Claude API
MCP protocol integration

▸ Trending Now: Tech Stack

🔴 AI-Native Development

const aiStack = {
  agents: ["AWS Bedrock", "Claude API", "MCP"],
  orchestration: "AWS Agent Squad",
  tools: ["Cursor", "Claude Code", "v0"],
  patterns: ["Supervisor-Agent", "RAG", "Tool Use"]
};

⚪ Frontend Architecture

const frontendStack = {
  core: ["React 19", "Next.js 15", "TypeScript"],
  native: ["React Native", "Expo"],
  testing: ["Playwright", "Chromatic", "Vitest"],
  patterns: ["Server Components", "RSC", "Streaming"]
};

🔴 Cloud & Infrastructure

const cloudStack = {
  platform: "AWS Amplify Gen2",
  compute: ["Lambda", "Edge Functions"],
  data: ["DynamoDB", "Aurora Serverless"],
  auth: ["Cognito", "Okta", "Auth0"]
};

⚪ Design Systems

const designStack = {
  methodology: ["Atomic Design", "CVA"],
  tokens: ["Style Dictionary", "Figma Variables"],
  docs: ["Storybook", "Chromatic"],
  pipeline: "Figma → Tokens → Code"
};

▸ Top 10 Achievements

🥇	71% Performance Gain	Disney Movie Insiders TTI: 7s → 2s for 2.5M+ members
🥈	Zero-Downtime CIAM	Arc'teryx ForgeRock → Okta migration, 1.2M+ users
🥉	PR Process Revolution	2-4 day bottleneck → <1 day distributed model
4	Design Token Automation	95% reduction in design-dev coordination cycles
5	Multi-Agent Architecture	Isla AI: production-grade agentic workflows
6	10,000+ Learners	CodeDoor.org serverless platform architecture
7	30+ Engineers Enabled	API-first, CDD, design tokens training
8	15+ Engineers Mentored	1:1s, code reviews, architecture sessions
9	100+ Properties	Harvard Business School MACH transformation
10	20+ Hires	Built Apply Digital's frontend capability

▸ Episodes: Career Timeline

📺 Season 5: AI-Native Era (2023-Present)

Role	Company	Highlights
Staff Engineer	Apply Digital	Arc'teryx CIAM, Disney Studio One, HBS MACH
Co-Founder	Tensorparc/Isla	Multi-agent AI systems, AWS Bedrock architecture

Key Technologies: React Native, AWS Bedrock, Claude API, MCP, Playwright, Chromatic

📺 Season 4: Platform Scale (2021-2023)

Role	Company	Highlights
Lead UI Engineer	DISCO	Legal-tech micro-frontends, enterprise search

Key Technologies: React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Docker, Micro-frontends

📺 Season 3: Enterprise Delivery (2018-2021)

Role	Company	Highlights
Principal Engineer	Apply Digital	Disney Movie Insiders 71% perf gain, CDD standards

Key Technologies: React, Next.js, Cypress, AWS Lambda, Serverless

📺 Season 2: React Pioneer (2015-2018)

Role	Company	Highlights
Senior Frontend	Cumul8	Early React adopter (2015), Disney C-suite platform
Co-Founder	CodeDoor.org	EdTech platform, IBM/JPMorgan partnerships

Key Technologies: React, Flux (pre-Redux), D3.js, ES6

📺 Season 1: Multimedia Origins (2007-2015)

Role	Company	Highlights
Web Developer	PEAK-System	Embedded hardware web interfaces
Interactive Designer	TMC	Flash/ActionScript 3 campaigns
Multimedia Manager	Tupperware	Video production, Cinema 4D, web dev

Key Technologies: ActionScript 3, Flash, PHP, After Effects, Cinema 4D

▸ My List: Current Focus

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  🎯 BUILDING                                                    |
│  ├── Isla: Multi-agent AI orchestration system                  │
│  └── AI-native development workflows                            │
│                                                                 │
│  📚 EXPLORING                                                   │
│  ├── Claude MCP (Model Context Protocol)                        │
│  ├── AWS Agent Squad patterns                                   │
│  └── React 19 Server Components + Streaming                     │
│                                                                 │
│  🎓 SHARING                                                     │
│  ├── Component-driven development workshops                     │
│  ├── Design token pipeline implementations                      │
│  └── AI/LLM architecture patterns                               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

▸ Because You Watched: Philosophy

"I specialize in stepping into ambiguous situations and creating stability. Whether it's transforming PR processes from bottlenecks to distributed models or mentoring 15+ engineers, my goal is to elevate the team's success level."

The `Architecture` Interface

const tonyMeyer = {
  role: "Staff Engineer",
  superpower: "Turning chaos into scalable systems",
  approach: [
    "API-first contracts before code",
    "Design tokens as single source of truth", 
    "Component-driven development",
    "AI-augmented velocity"
  ],
  belief: "The best architecture enables autonomy"
};