Thomas Godar Email & Phone Number

United States

Maple Plain, MN

• I led the development of a LAMP based SaaS product for online auction houses, providing all the tools necessary for managing a full auction lifecycle. The platform handles over fifty thousand bids daily and serves an.
• Implemented "real-time" bidding using websockets with NodeJS and Redis on the backend.
• Processed and stored tens of millions of images leveraging OCR and barcode scanning to streamline uploading and… Show more I led the development of a LAMP based SaaS product for online auction houses, providing all the.
• Processed and stored tens of millions of images leveraging OCR and barcode scanning to streamline uploading and managing those assets.
• Migrated from RackSpace hosting to Amazon Web Services, obtaining a more modern, cost-effective, and fault tolerant solution.
• Expanded use of ML, specifically with product recommendation, by adopting AWS’s Personalize and expanding user event tracking, increasing engagement and conversions.

• (VISI/TDS) Application development supporting systems for the operation of managed data centers for a Fortune 500 company.
• Lead development of an ITIL aligned service desk solution
• Worked on integrating Nimsoft’s monitoring appliance into existing infrastructure, providing real time alerting and visualizations of performance data.
• Extensive involvement with the automation of tools and technologies used in traditional hosting and cloud services.

Mendota Heights, MN

• As a Senior Developer at CotterWeb I was responsible for maintaining multiple high traffic sites serving an active member base of around 5 million users. While there I gained extensive knowledge regarding online media.
• Involved in many aspects of high volume web and database architecture.
• Worked with large data sets to build recommendation engines and other machine learning components.
• Developed the systems responsible for the sending of tens of… Show more As a Senior Developer at CotterWeb I was responsible for maintaining multiple high traffic sites serving an active member base of around 5 million.
• Developed the systems responsible for the sending of tens of millions of emails each day.
• Built a web browser toolbar, increasing traffic and opening additional revenue streams.

Monteverde, Costa Rica

I provided consulting and custom software to businesses in the tourism and service sectors of Costa Rica. My main product was a point-of-sale system developed in Visual Basic. My clients included restaurants, hotels, and tour operators. From there, I started to focus more on web based projects, often adding online merchant services, mostly for hotels and.