Thomas Newman
Staff Software Engineer at General Motors
Livonia, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Newman is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems across automotive and security product domains, currently leading vehicle data initiatives at General Motors. He has a strong track record delivering greenfield microservices and streaming data pipelines in Java and Node.js, and has driven multi-million-dollar cost avoidance by rapidly replacing legacy ingestion systems. Thomas blends hands-on development with DevOps and IaC expertise—implementing Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines to compress deployment cycles and improve reliability. He’s comfortable working at scale (millions of vehicle connections per day, 10k TPS) and has repeatedly turned prototype projects into production services under tight timelines. Based in Livonia, Michigan, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with practical experience across startups and large enterprises, often surfacing architecture roadmaps and process improvements that outlast individual projects.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Lawrence Technological University
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Github Skills (84)
segment10
kazoo10
producer10
ansible9
entity-relationship-diagram8
pgmodeler8
audio8
data-storage8
golang8
sftp8
openssh8
kafka8
kafka-consumer7
aws-s37
rust7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kazoo-ansible/kazoo-ansible
Feb 2017 - Apr 2018
Kazoo Ansible Playbooks
Contributions:8 releases, 188 commits, 183 pushes in 1 year 2 months
2600hzansiblekazoo
tnewman/dray
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
A cloud native SFTP server designed to support multiple data storage backends, starting with S3.
Contributions:1 review, 320 commits, 66 PRs in 2 years
sftp-serverrustsftpbackendsdata-storage
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