Thomas Suckow
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"