Thomas Young
Senior Software Engineer at Blackmagic Design
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Young is a senior software engineer based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building storage, networking, and distributed systems for both startups and large enterprises. He has deep, hands-on expertise in TCP/IP, scaling and stability, and has driven core vSAN features (snapshots, cluster management, disk format upgrades, and KMIP encryption) in C and Python. At Blackmagic Design and previously VMware (including the Virsto acquisition), he focuses on efficient resource utilization and performant storage primitives. Early kernel work at the University of Melbourne and submitted Linux patches reflect a background in low-level systems and experimental TCP congestion control. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex protocol and storage challenges into reliable, production-grade solutions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BCMS, Software Engineering, First class hons, BCMS, Software Engineering, First class hons at The University of Waikato
Github Skills (25)
python10
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
garden10
asyncio10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
jekyll9
documentation8
ctrl6
esphome4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tfyoung/esphome-junctek_kgf
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Component for esphome to read status from a Junctek KG-F coulometer/battery monitor via UART
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year
tfyoung/esphome-mitsubishiheatpump
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
ESPHome Climate Component for Mitsubishi Heatpumps using direct serial connection
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 months
climateserialesp8266mitsubishihome-assistant
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