Summary
Thomas Bruestle is a Lead Systems Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing resilient, multi-tiered systems and leading cross-disciplinary engineering teams in defense and commercial sectors. He founded and scaled Northrop Grumman’s digital thread initiative—growing it from a one-person effort into a 10-engineer program—and spun a prior product, the Consilium Decision Engine, into a multi-million dollar company. Skilled across embedded systems, full-stack development, cloud and database architecture, PLCs and MBSE, he bridges factory-floor data collection to enterprise PLM and simulation architectures. At CAE he shaped cloud-enabled simulator infrastructure for a $1B program and authored geospatial data standards used across the project. Holding an MS and BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he combines deep technical breadth with pragmatic process design and a track record of turning complex, secured systems requirements into deployable, failure-tolerant solutions.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University