Tom Anderson
Principal Software Engineer II at Blizzard Entertainment
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Anderson is a Principal Software Engineer II with 12+ years building large-scale, distributed systems and global cloud infrastructure at Blizzard Entertainment, where he now shapes architecture, monitoring, and Go best practices across bare metal, private, and public clouds. A polyglot comfortable in C#, Go, Java, NodeJS and C++, he blends network-layer expertise with pragmatic application design to deliver high-performance, low-latency fleet state and operational tooling. He mentors teams and leads technical direction while still contributing hands-on — for example, implementing an HttpClient-based connection for Elastic's official .NET client. Based in California, Tom pairs deep systems thinking with a practical bias for refactoring and reliability, often surfacing non-obvious improvements in client/server interactions and resource management.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
NA Electronic Engineering, NA Electronic Engineering at Purdue University
Stackoverflow
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138answers
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winforms
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reflection
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Github Skills (27)
amazon-elasticsearch10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
vbnet10
http-client10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
csharp10
elasticsearch-api10
api-design9
restful-api9
reflection9
api-rest9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch-net
May 2014 - May 2014
This strongly-typed, client library enables working with Elasticsearch. It is the official client maintained and supported by Elastic.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tom's primary contribution focused on implementing the `HttpClient` connection for the Elasticsearch client library. They implemented the `IConnection` interface using `HttpClient`, including both synchronous and asynchronous request methods. The user also fixed issues related to the `Accept` headers and the `HttpClient` instance management. Furthermore, they refactored and renamed the `HttpClientConnection` class, and removed integration test elements.
dot-net-clientelasticsearch-netdot-netclient-libraryelastic
renevo/bootstrap
Jan 2022 - Sep 2024
Personal Go Bootstrap module
Contributions:9 releases, 11 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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