Caleb Tote
Senior Technical Director Of Infrastructure at Gearbox Entertainment
Frisco, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCaleb Tote is a senior technical leader with 12+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure for large-scale, real-time services, currently leading global infrastructure for AAA gaming at Gearbox Entertainment. He combines hands-on expertise with AWS, Terraform/Terragrunt, Datadog, GitLab CI/CD, Python and Go to design secure, highly reliable distributed microservices and reduce deployment times from days to minutes. Caleb has a track record of growing and mentoring Cloud and SRE teams, instituting 24/7 monitoring and shift-based launch support to protect engineers’ work-life balance while keeping player-facing latency and outages rare. He led the multi-year rollout of Gearbox Cloud and shipping practices that enabled consistent, measurable improvements in security and incident readiness. Known for treating latency as an outage and insisting teams “prove it” with context-specific validation, he pairs operational rigor with a practical, people-first leadership style. Based in Frisco, Texas, he blends academic grounding in software engineering with hands-on experience across major game launches and enterprise systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science - Software Engineering, Masters Computer Science - Software Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Bluefield State University
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Github contributions (5)
calebtote/sockets
Feb 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
calebtote/slackbots
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch, 6 comments in 10 months
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