Summary
Thomas Baer is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining software, cloud, and DevOps infrastructure across small companies and startups. Based in West Lafayette, Indiana, he currently engineers systems at Xsys while providing part-time programming support for Diamondale Adolescent Care Facilities. His background spans CNC and process programming, search and data aggregation, and automating manual workflows—demonstrating a blend of hardware-aware engineering and cloud-native development. Thomas began programming at age 10, which informs a long-standing curiosity and a penchant for practical, maintainable solutions. He’s comfortable owning end-to-end services and building automation that streamlines operations for nontechnical teams. A detail that sets him apart: early exposure to computing and sustained cross-disciplinary work gives him uncommon empathy for operators and manufacturing constraints when designing software.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Excel Center
None, Computer Software Engineering, None, Computer Software Engineering at Purdue University
English, Spanish, Japanese