Tom Schutte Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

London, GB

Founding member of the technical engineering staff at Ambar. My core role has been to build a robust and dynamic backend system to manage, monitor and maintain customer infrastructure while providing an easy to use interface.

Seattle, WA, US

• Represented team and company at Current 22 Conference, presenting on lessons learned from operating thousands of Apache Kafka deployments
• Lead design and Implementation of critical path for scalable workflow for modifying compute of customer clusters while maintaining availability of the cluster.
• Worked on scalable workflow for upgrading customers clusters Apache Kafka version while maintaining availability of the cluster.
• Helped define
• Identified architectural scaling vulnerabilities of service, resolving major operational risks.
• Triaged critical system risks and participated in ops rotations to increase system stability and serviceability.

Seattle, WA, US

• Worked on feature to enable customers to share pre-made machine images with one another while restricting permissions given
• Integrated AWS services for a more seamless customer experience within AWS.
• Filled in security gaps, and modified service auth to allow for fine grained policy control of resources
• Participated in ops duties including debugging and mitigating large impact events on our systems.
• Assisted in training and onboarding new employees and writing documentation to support them in their first weeks and months
• Took ownership of service host security patching, and creating SOP for maintaining SLA for patching responsibilities

Seattle, WA, US

• Developed data ingestion tool for use as part of acceptance testing
• Helped expand and build test framework as part of increasing test coverage
• Researched existing tools for testing databases systems and potential value gains from their use
• Participated in 2-week sprint cycle to break down tasks into smaller deliverable goals

Verona, Wisconsin, US

• Worked full time on embedded systems alongside professional embedded engineers
• Created continuous integration build System using Jenkins, Robot, and Python
• Set up system for automated testing on U-Boot repository
• Researched and implemented Freescale Secure Boot technologies in U-Boot for PowerPC
• Helped troubleshoot and review code to be added to repository

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Software development working 20+ hours a week alongside full class schedule, fulltime in summers
• Contractor for Thomson Reuters, working on current production products alongside lead developers
• Updated legacy code to new MVC5 formats, making product more modern
• Participated in agile standup meetings discussing future work for projects and what developers were working on
• Communicated with team daily on current progress and any pain points, participating in meetings as needed
• Researched and implemented new technologies that had potential use and application in our product