Alejandro Tomsic
Founder at Sick Tom Toms Music
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlejandro Tomsic is a founder and distributed systems researcher with 12 years of experience building and studying fault-tolerant, transaction-capable stream processing systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Sorbonne Université and completed the EMDC program at Instituto Superior Técnico and KTH, grounding his work in formal distributed computing and cloud programming. Alejandro interned twice at Microsoft, contributing to next-generation stream engines and designing ACID transaction protocols for the Orleans framework, and published research on failure detectors at IPDPS. Based in Paris, he combines academic rigor with hands-on software engineering—earlier roles include Java development on the fastFIX open-source project and network administration for service providers. As founder of Sick Tom Toms Music, he also blends technical creativity with music production and songwriting, bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to system design. Colleagues would note his rare mix of deep protocol knowledge and practical implementation experience across both research and production contexts.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Sorbonne UniversitéEMDC - European Master in Distributed Computing, Ingeniería informática, EMDC - European Master in Distributed Computing, Ingeniería informática at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyIngeniero, Computación, Ingeniero, Computación at Universidad Nacional de TucumánEuropean Master in Distributed Computing, Distributed Computing, Distributed Programming, Cloud Computing, European Master in Distributed Computing, Distributed Computing, Distributed Programming, Cloud Computing at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
transactional-database10
transactional10
erlang10
crdt10
scale10
planet10
database10
riak-kv8
testing7
ets7
elixir6
cassandra5
benchmark5
consistency4
shell3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SyncFree/antidote_utils
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
AntidoteDB/antidote
Apr 2014 - Jan 2018
A planet scale, highly available, transactional database built on CRDT technology
Contributions:682 commits, 21 PRs, 441 pushes in 3 years 9 months
erlangplanettransactionaltransactional-databasescale
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