Randy Thompson
Senior Software Development Engineer at GoDaddy.Com
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolRandy Thompson is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and securing systems, tracing roots to Signal Operations in the U.S. Army. Based in Cedar Rapids, he brings deep expertise in security, SRE, and cloud migrations—helping convert monoliths to microservices on AWS while automating build, patch, and certificate lifecycles. At GoDaddy he led efforts that cut server build times by over 60% and drove monitoring, capacity, and IP management automation across domains infrastructure. Passionate about functional programming and high-performance code, he actively explores Elixir, Erlang, Rust, and Python to solve distributed-systems challenges. A pragmatic leader and scrum master, he blends operational rigor from military and enterprise environments with a hacker’s curiosity for performant, secure architectures.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Computer Software Engineering, 2.92 GPA, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Computer Software Engineering, 2.92 GPA at University of Phoenix
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Github Skills (200)
remote-execution10
infrastructure-management10
minification10
api10
phoenix-framework10
api-server10
mongodb10
zeromq10
mnesia10
otp10
python10
scale10
scalable10
erlang10
salt10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
beardedeagle/alpine-phoenix-builder
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
Up to date Alpine image with the latest language versions for staged Elixir and Phoenix builds.
Contributions:103 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 8 months
phoenix-frameworkalpine-imagebuildsstagedelixir
beardedeagle/mnesiac
Jul 2018 - Dec 2021
Mnesia autoclustering made easy!
Contributions:17 releases, 95 commits, 62 PRs in 3 years 5 months
erlangmnesiabeampartitioningelixir
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