JT Wheeler
Senior Software Engineer at Torc Robotics
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJT Wheeler is a software engineering manager in Ann Arbor with over a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale connected vehicle and industrial IoT platforms. He has led cloud-native architecture and migrations at Ford (and previously Autonomic), building production services in Java and Go on AWS and GCP with Kubernetes, Kafka, and robust identity/access patterns that process billions of messages daily. JT blends hands-on engineering—on-call incident management, APIs for real-time vehicle data, and OTA update systems—with mentorship and team leadership to elevate junior engineers. His background includes leading global SRE and platform teams at Accenture to deliver Azure-based IIoT and data lake solutions for Fortune 500 clients, showing strength across embedded, full-stack, and cloud systems. Notably, he has repeatedly translated manufacturing and automotive domain knowledge into scalable software products—from mobile scanning for inventory to fleet-wide connected services. He combines systems-level thinking with practical delivery experience, driving reliability and security in mission-critical vehicle platforms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education at Lansing Community CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science & Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science & Mathematics at Central Michigan University
Github Skills (1)
api5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jtlwheeler/CarQuery
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
Library for using the CarQuery API
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 1 year 8 months
api
jtlwheeler/node-express-starter
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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