Jacob Tomaw
Software Engineer V at Grainger
South Bend, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Tomaw is a seasoned Software Engineer V with two decades of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams to adopt continuous delivery and DevOps practices. Based in South Bend, Indiana, he blends hands-on expertise in Java, Spring, Node.js, Ruby on Rails and AWS with a track record of reducing cycle time and improving reliability at companies like Orbitz, ShopRunner, and Grainger. He excels at mentoring engineers, running internal tech talks, and evangelizing modern delivery—having driven on-demand deployments and platform improvements that scaled to tens of thousands of requests per minute. An active international speaker through Tomaw Tech, he pairs practical coaching and public presentations with day-to-day technical leadership, and brings a rare mix of product-focused delivery and developer craftsmanship to every organization he joins.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
English
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Github Skills (130)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
flatiron32/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:59 pushes in 6 years 6 months
flatiron32/strap
Nov 2017 - Jul 2021
:boot: Bootstrap your macOS development system.
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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