Tom Bostelmann
Lead AI Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolTom Bostelmann is a Lead AI Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and shipping large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems and search infrastructure. At Target he architects and leads development of Albus, a reactive Scala/Akka search framework that unifies CNN classification, desirability and ranking models into a measurable, production-grade pipeline. His background spans building high-throughput real-time platforms—from Sauron, a malware detection system processing bursts of up to 500k events per second with sub-5s latency, to microservices and CI/CD at Digital River—emphasizing resilience, instrumentation, and containerized deployments. He combines hands-on engineering and system design with entrepreneurial experience as a technical co-founder in fintech for emerging markets, bringing product sensibility to complex technical problems. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs deep backend expertise (Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Spring Cloud/Netflix stack) with a pragmatic focus on observability and operational reliability.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at St. Olaf College
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Github Skills (30)
meilisearch9
utm9
search-engine7
docker-desktop7
python7
multiarch7
docker-machine7
metaprogramming6
android6
google-maps6
openflow6
ruby6
fundamentals6
opensearch5
docker4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kaeverett/savetogether
Feb 2009 - Feb 2009
Contributions:11 commits in 2 days
tbostelmann/search_fundamentals_course
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
Public repository for the Search Fundamentals course taught by Daniel Tunkelang and Grant Ingersoll. Available at https://corise.com/course/search-fundamentals?utm_source=daniel
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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