Thomas Lawless
IBM Distinguished Engineer
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Lawless is an IBM Distinguished Engineer with 11+ years of professional experience and a long tenure at IBM spanning roles from Senior Software Engineer to Executive IT Specialist. He has led global teams building JEE web applications that deliver sales collateral and enterprise services, driving analysis, design, testing and deployment across the software lifecycle. Known for blending hands-on engineering with strategic technical leadership, he consistently turns complex requirements into robust, production-ready solutions. Based in New York, he combines an MS in Software Engineering with deep practical expertise in enterprise service development. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, architecture decisions, and operationalizing large-scale web applications. He brings a pragmatic focus on quality and delivery that keeps business stakeholders aligned with engineering realities.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS Software Engineering, MS Software Engineering at Marist UniversityBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at SUNY New Paltz
Github Skills (22)
bot-framework8
bots8
ruby7
nlu7
rasa7
vault7
natural-language-processing7
conversational-ai7
homebrew7
voice-assistant7
chatbot7
nlp7
conversational-bots6
botkit6
conversational-agents6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tglawless/jee
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 15 pushes in 3 months
tglawless/liberty-logstash-splunk
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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