Summary
Thomas Wheeler is a seasoned Fractional CTO and Senior Software Architect with 30+ years delivering cloud-native, data-intensive systems for contact centers, financial modeling, and SaaS products. He combines hands-on full-stack development (Java, C#, Angular) with enterprise architecture expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and data lakes such as Apache Iceberg to solve large-scale regulatory and analytics challenges. Thomas has led engineering organizations from startup teams to 75+ engineers and architected systems processing billions of interaction events and petabyte-scale analytics for Fortune 500 clients. He repeatedly stabilizes legacy platforms—migrating massive media estates, converting monoliths to microservices, and instituting CI/CD and repeatable deployments—while prioritizing pragmatic shipping over perfection. A pragmatic mentor and diversity advocate, he has a track record of hiring overlooked talent who became leaders and co-authored a practical agile/business alignment book. Based in Denver, he also built a strongly typed temporal financial modeling engine, demonstrating rare depth across both infrastructure-scale engineering and domain-specific product design.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of Colorado Boulder