Thomas Schreiter
Senior Software Engineer at Slack
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Schreiter is a Senior Software Engineer based in Atlanta with 11 years of experience building full-stack and backend infrastructure at companies like Quip, Slack, Microsoft, and Salesforce. He blends a strong academic background—a PhD in Transportation Civil Engineering and computer science degrees—with hands-on engineering, having built scalable experimentation and data analysis platforms at Microsoft and integrated Quip into the Salesforce ecosystem. At Slack/Quip he focuses on backend infrastructure for collaborative document tooling, while his early work in ITS combined traffic modeling, sensor data cleaning, and control systems—an unusual bridge between transportation research and production software. He’s comfortable operating across the stack and large-scale data systems, with experience stress-testing streaming platforms like Kafka and Kinesis. Colleagues would note his analytical rigor from research paired with pragmatic engineering to ship reliable systems used by thousands across enterprise products.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inform. (M.Sc.+B.Sc.) Computer Science, Dipl.-Inform. (M.Sc.+B.Sc.) Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Ph.D. Transportation Civil Engineering, Ph.D. Transportation Civil Engineering at Delft University of TechnologyComputer Science, Computer Science at Uppsala University
German, English, Dutch, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
documentation-generator8
api-documentation8
azure-sdk-for-ruby8
percona8
databases7
azure-functions7
python7
azure6
azure-durable-functions6
rest-api6
openapi6
redoc6
api6
azure-devops6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thomas-schreiter/ingestion_benchmark
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:94 commits, 79 pushes, 9 branches in 23 days
thomas-schreiter/Railstutorial
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 1 month
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