Thomas Rota

Senior Staff Engineer at Suki

Naples, Florida, United States
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Thomas Rota is a Senior Staff Engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience building resilient infrastructure and automating software delivery, currently architecting Kubernetes platforms and developer workflows at Suki from Naples, Florida. He combines deep systems experience—from designing SaaS data warehouses and CI/CD pipelines to securing clusters with RBAC, Linkerd mTLS and network policies—with practical automation using Terraform, Ansible, Flux and Tekton. A CNCF-certified Kubernetes Administrator and Application Developer and DataStax-certified Cassandra specialist, he also contributes to open source (including Agones) and has written production Go microservices and cross-platform tooling in Python and C++. Known for turning operational drag into repeatable pipelines, he has a track record of improving uptime and developer velocity across startups and consultancies. Unusually for an infrastructure-focused engineer, his background includes product design for mobile and embedded ARM devices and hands-on ops running LAMP/WISA stacks and SSL/DNS for dozens of domains.
code10 years of coding experience
job25 years of employment as a software developer
bookPinewood High School
bookUniversity of California, Riverside
languagesNorwegian, English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (48)

kubernetes10
dedicated10
multiplayer10
scaling10
unreal10
golang10
game-development10
hosting10
blueprint9
unreal-engine-59
agones9
go9
houdini9
nlp8
python8

Programming languages (4)

C++MakefileGoPython

Github contributions (5)

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slartibaartfast/agones

Aug 2018 - Feb 2020

Dedicated Game Server Hosting and Scaling for Multiplayer Games on Kubernetes
Contributions:69 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
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Embed Python in Unreal Engine 4
Contributions:23 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
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Thomas Rota - Senior Staff Engineer at Suki