Tobin Burgess
Principle HR Business Partner at Alteryx
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTobin Burgess is a seasoned HR leader with 20+ years of experience designing talent, organizational development, and M&A solutions for high-growth software engineering and AI research organizations. He has partnered with and coached executives at scale across Microsoft, Meta AI Infrastructure, and now Alteryx, translating people analytics into pragmatic programs that support hyper-growth and complex integrations. Tobin has led enterprise talent initiatives impacting up to 250K employees and managed HR budgets as large as $250M, while also building specialty COE solutions for mobility, workforce planning, and change management. He blends a data-driven, systems-thinking approach with hands-on delivery—having created an “organizational compatibility” due diligence practice and driven award-winning post-merger integrations. Based in Fort Collins, he brings uncommon cross-domain fluency: deep HR operations and strategy paired with exposure to cutting-edge AI engineering environments and open-source security-focused DevOps work. Tobin holds an MBA in Strategic HR Management and a track record of turning complex people challenges into scalable, measurable outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Strategic Human Resource Management, MBA Strategic Human Resource Management at Syracuse UniversityBA Economics/Political Science, BA Economics/Political Science at Drake University
Github Skills (15)
build-automation10
kubernetes10
bash10
docker10
container10
dockers10
qemu10
kubernetes-pods10
virtualization10
cicd10
security10
go9
rust9
acr7
kvm7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/kata-containers
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:292 reviews, 2 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tobin primarily focused on enhancing the build and deployment processes of Kata Containers, adding support for new security features like SEV and SNP. Their contributions included modifying build scripts, adding configuration files, and integrating new shims within the kata-deploy tool to support different QEMU flavors. Furthermore, they updated test configurations and removed conditional test skips, ensuring thorough testing of the new features. They also contributed to hardening and securing the infrastructure.
firecrackervirtualizationociworkloadvdi
fitzthum/kbs
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Generic Key Broker Service
Contributions:1 PR, 189 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year 8 months
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