Tom Ammon
Lead Engineer - Network Operating System
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTom Ammon is a Lead Engineer specializing in network operating systems with nine years of focused experience building and automating large-scale WAN and backbone networks. Based in Austin, he has progressed from hands-on network engineering and Infiniband/high-performance work to principal and lead roles at organizations such as Adobe, Oracle, Whole Foods, and Target, often owning MPLS, TE, and inter-AS designs. He favors execution over endless planning, embraces iterative decision-making, and pairs protocol-level expertise with pragmatic automation to reduce operational risk. Tom also brings business-minded design thinking from roles where he built financial cases for network choices, and he enjoys teaching—regularly training colleagues on Ansible, MPLS, and deployment practices.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Telecommunications Administration, BS, Telecommunications Administration at Weber State University
Github Skills (43)
sdn9
virtual-network9
django8
django-rest-framework8
networking8
sonic8
upstream7
ansible7
api7
python7
ospf7
bgp6
rest-api6
rest6
openflow6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tomammon/ansible-reference
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
tomammon/dev
Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 9 months
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