Thomas Suckow
Livermore CA
Portland OR

Experience

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Software Engineer 2012-2021
  • Architected numerous software solutions, from webapps to backend processing
  • Lead development of air sample triage Java/Scala/C++ web application
    • Built custom charting library to support needed interactions with minimal jank
  • Lead development of a "bring your own data" search/visualization webapp
    • Hundreds of simultaneous GraphQL queries (most small)
    • Custom Apollo networking to support re-authentication without erroring
    • Custom GraphQL AST parser to build efficient Elasticsearch Queries
      • Fragments/Aliases not supported
  • Lead development of a high latency (5+ min) equipment management tool
    • Custom messaging to support eventually consistent services
  • Mentored over a dozen developers of many experience levels
  • Collaborated to save a C# project suffering from scope creep to meet deadlines
Side Projects
  • Trying to modernize the Duplicati C# codebase
  • Packet inspection in Rust for monitoring bandwidth hogs
  • Maintainer of scala-guice

Certification

Security+ Nov 2018-2024

Education

Oregon Institute of Technology 2012
  • B.S. Computer Engineering Technology
  • B.S. Software Engineering Technology
  • Minor: Applied Mathematics

Extracurricular

Confluent Makerspace Founded 2015
  • Co-founded makerspace in Richland WA
  • Served on the Board of Directors
  • Nicknamed "The voice of reason"