Dominik Tornow
Founder & CEO at Resonate HQ
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolDominik Tornow is a founder and CEO with 11 years of engineering leadership experience building cloud-native and distributed systems from enterprise to startup. As founder of Resonate HQ and former Principal Engineer at Temporal and Cisco, he combines deep practical knowledge of durable distributed executions with hands-on product and platform delivery. At SAP he led Kubernetes modeling, drove GitHub Enterprise adoption for 20,000+ developers, and helped shrink release cycles from 18 months to weekly, demonstrating an ability to translate complex technical concepts into organizational change. Author of Think Distributed Systems and contributor to tooling around durable executions, he blends systems thinking with pragmatic engineering. Based in San Jose, he pairs technical depth in cloud architectures with a talent for cross-functional persuasion and measurable impact on developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
English, German
Stackoverflow
131reputation
3kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (119)
async-await10
golang10
workflow-management10
temporal10
cli9
distributed-cron9
kitematic9
docker9
docusaurus9
microservice-framework9
distributed-systems9
workflow-engine9
workflow-automation9
bytecode8
datalog8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dtornow/dtornow.github.io
Dec 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
resonatehq/async-await-literature
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Papers informing the design and development of Distributed Async Await
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 month
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