Thomas Garner
Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Garner is a Site Reliability Engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently focused on Google Voice and telephony platforms in Mountain View. He has deep expertise in datacenter ops, Unix/Linux, capacity planning for systems handling over a million QPS, and production incident leadership cultivated across multiple Google SRE roles and a Staff SRE stint at Collective Health. At Collective Health he shaped SRE culture—running company-wide incidents, teaching incident command, and creating on-call and monitoring curricula that reduced organizational risk. Thomas also contributes to open-source scraping tooling, adding and maintaining spiders that expand location coverage for projects like alltheplaces. Known for pragmatic trade-offs and clear postmortems, he combines hardware-level datacenter experience with software-driven reliability practices. He prefers not to engage with recruiters for TikTok or crypto.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (8)
data-extraction10
scrapy10
spider10
python10
webscraping10
geojson9
json9
css8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alltheplaces/alltheplaces
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
A set of spiders and scrapers to extract location information from places that post their location on the internet.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 22 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the project by developing spiders and scrapers to extract location information from various websites. They updated existing spiders, such as those for Bank of America and Arby's, to handle changes in website structure. Additionally, the user added new spiders for truck stops and restaurants, demonstrating a focus on expanding the project's data sources. This work directly aligns with the repository's purpose of gathering location data.
pythonscrapyspiderscraperslocation
thomas536/alltheplaces
Feb 2020 - Sep 2021
A set of spiders and scrapers to extract location information from places that post their location on the internet.
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 6 months
pythonscraperslocationpython-requestsspiders
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