Thomas Polkowski
Senior Software Engineer at Mirantis
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Polkowski is a Senior Software Engineer based in Toronto with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack and Android solutions. A University of Waterloo Computer Engineering student-turned-professional, he has applied Java, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, C/C++, and modern tooling like Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker across teams at Mirantis, Guidewire, and Index Exchange. He excels at shipping reliable backend services and integration-heavy systems, with a practical grounding in SQL, testing frameworks, and CI build tools. Thomas’s background spans startups and established enterprises, giving him a knack for balancing rapid iteration with production stability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design choices that simplify deployment and observability in distributed environments. He often bridges frontend, mobile, and backend work, making him a versatile contributor on cross-functional engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (11)
k0s10
docker9
kubernetes9
k8s8
container-runtime-interface7
bootstrapping7
helmfile6
subnet3
amazon-web-services3
aws3
helm2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Mirantis/homebrew-tap
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 113 PRs in 18 days
tppolkow/ece452project
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Project for ECE 452 course
Contributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months
ecsece
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