Summary
Thomas Townsley is an experienced embedded and full-stack software engineer with 11 years building production systems across embedded C/C++, Python, Java/TypeScript backends, and AWS-based deployments. Currently serving as Electronics Lab Shop Captain at Make Nashville, he blends hands-on hardware mentorship with prior embedded firmware work at FortyAU and bioinformatics visualization tooling for pandemic response. His background includes data engineering with Spark/Scala, supervised clustering research in protein domains, and real-world product delivery for high-profile clients in marketing and music. A Nashville-based technologist and mandolin enthusiast, Thomas brings a rare mix of theoretical computer science interest, musical creativity, and practical DevOps discipline to interdisciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Business Administration, B.Sc. Business Administration at Loyola University New Orleans
Embedded Systems Certification Computer Software Engineering, Embedded Systems Certification Computer Software Engineering at UC San Diego Extended Studies
Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering; Data Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering; Data Science at Lipscomb University