Thomas Stringer
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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RockstarThomas Stringer is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems, currently at NVIDIA after roles at Microsoft and Freenome. Based in New Hampshire, he specializes in Linux-first engineering — containerization with Docker/Kubernetes, observability, and DevOps automation — and writes production code in Go, Python, and Bash while operating PostgreSQL-backed systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved projects such as Open Service Mesh (adding configurable certificate key sizes and tracing integrations), ansible's Azure modules, and the Azure Linux Agent and cloud-init to harden VM provisioning and cloud compatibility. He blends low-level OS and cloud API work with an SRE mindset to ship secure, scalable platforms, often focusing on closing operational gaps between development and infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (58)
api-doc10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
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cloud-computing10
cloud-init10
python10
testing10
github-actions-workflows10
configuration-management10
linux10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
trstringer/manual-approval
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Pause your GitHub Actions workflow and request manual approval from set approvers before continuing
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 19 reviews, 73 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the automation and management of the GitHub Actions workflow for manual approval within the repository. Their work involved implementing approval mechanisms, including setting up issue creation and comment processing. They also made improvements for handling different approval keywords (e.g., "approve", "lgtm") and fixed bugs related to handling newlines in approval comments. Further contributions included logging improvements and enabling team-based approvers.
github-actions-workflowpausedevopsdeploymentrelease-management
openservicemesh/osm
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:206 reviews, 41 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas focused on enhancing the Open Service Mesh (OSM) project by implementing features and addressing various issues. Contributions include making certificate key sizes configurable, adding a demo book app watcher, integrating tracing options with Jaeger, and improving bug reporting capabilities, including adding ingress information. They also addressed vulnerabilities and updated dependencies to improve the project's security and stability.
observabilitymicroservicesecuremicroservicesextensible
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