Thomas Rognon Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, TX, US

https://www.cloudternal.com/

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

North Ryde, NSW, AU

• Led the design and implementation of a new cloud platform that hosts hundreds of games and serves tens of millions of users across America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
• Accomplished greater scale than a similar system with 5x fewer people and >10x less infrastructure cost.
• Reduced tests involving billions of game simulations from weeks to minutes.
• Established a relationship with Google that has grown to reach Aristocrat C-level executives and Google Head of Sales.
• Unified internal development tooling and CI/CD.
• GCP, Linux, Node.js, TypeScript (ES6), React, MobX

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Led many teams that created software for Showtime, Disney, Fox, Annenberg, AMPAS, and Meredith.
• Worked directly with clients, consultants, and OnPrem partners/founders to scope and price more than 15 software projects. Technical lead on creating teams and getting these projects started.
• Rescued a failing asset preservation project for AMPAS (Academy Awards / Oscars) and developed software that exceeded best-case metrics by 4x by moving 40TB of data per week through a series of enterprise systems.
• AWS, Windows, Linux, Java, PowerShell, JavaScript (ES5), OTMM

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Chief architect and engineer for the company's premier firmware product.
• Designed and coded a UEFI security and policy platform.
• Coded a UEFI HTTP driver and implemented DNS, LLMNR, and mDNS protocols from scratch to support it.
• Designed and coded a UEFI GUI framework. The framework supports layouts, transparency, fonts, animations, layering, and much more.
• Created a wrapper to make NTFS-3G work in UEFI for reading and writing to NTFS.
• Designed and coded a Windows Filtering Platform kernel driver.

San Antonio, TX, US

• Designed and coded a MATLAB plugin that neuroscientists at universities across the country use to organize EEG (brainwave) data.
• Published twice in academic journals (links in the Publications section).
• MATLAB, Java

Washington, DC, US

• Directed administration for over 110 personnel.
• Advised Chief of National Operations on administrative issues and executed department initiatives. Liaised with Administration Department and Executive Department.
• Nominated for the 2011 Copernicus Award for individual contribution to Naval Warfare in Command, Control, Communications, Computers & Intelligence (C4I), Information Systems, and Information Warfare.
• Awarded a medal for superior job performance normally reserved for at least two paygrades higher and many more years of service.
• Directly responsible for administratively outpacing all other departments. #1 on all tracked metrics at every weekly review for my entire tenure.
• Wrote software on my free time that automated repetitive tasks and reports saving hundreds of hours every day.

Washington, DC, US

• Supervised junior personnel and liaised with a corporate personnel office across the state to resolve issues, and improve overall work output.
• Recognized in front of the department by Chief of Administration for taking a broken work center and turning it into the most efficient work center in the region.

Washington, DC, US

• Generated and tracked all staff-level correspondence for 2,000 personnel.
• Created a budget tracking system for over four million dollars for administrative and operational expenses.
• Created an ordnance tracking system for all bombs, missiles, rockets, and gun ammunition for the air wing staff and eight squadrons.