Thomas Petracca
Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Town of Smithtown, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Petracca is a Forward Deployed Software Engineer with a decade of experience building production systems at Palantir, blending deep backend skills in Java, C/C++, Python and Ruby with operational, client-facing problem solving. He has worked across high-performance databases and search stacks including Cassandra and Elasticsearch, and brings hands-on experience from research-grade FORTRAN bioinformatics to enterprise-grade distributed systems. A Cornell CS graduate, Thomas pairs strong technical breadth with practical delivery—having supported global teams during a Goldman Sachs internship and mentored students as a course consultant. Based in Town of Smithtown, NY, he’s comfortable translating complex data and systems challenges into deployable solutions that meet real-world operational needs.
10 years of coding experience
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (88)
pmd10
gradle-plugin10
palantir10
transactional10
spotbugs10
api10
database10
json10
cassandra10
embeddable10
gradle-kotlin-dsl10
gradle10
strongly-typed10
baseline10
nosql9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tpetracca/atlasdb
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:25 pushes, 14 branches in 3 months
transactionaldatabase-layerdistributed-databasedatabasedistributed
tpetracca/gradle-java-distribution
Jun 2016 - Feb 2019
a Gradle plugin that creates a standard Java distribution package with start scripts
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
javagradledistributiongradle-plugin
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