Tom Caflisch
Software Engineer at PagerDuty
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolTom Caflisch is a seasoned full‑stack software engineer with 14+ years of experience leading teams and modernizing development practices across healthcare, enterprise, and startup environments. Currently at PagerDuty, he combines hands‑on expertise in Node.js, Ruby, Java, and modern JavaScript frameworks with strong architecture and testing discipline—he insists on unit tests and CI/CD. Tom has a track record of driving cultural change (notably at Mayo Clinic) to adopt modern tooling and processes, and has built internal productivity tools and platform features at companies like Ciitizen and Catalytic. An active open‑source contributor, he expanded MongoDB support in the widely used node-db-migrate project, demonstrating practical database migration and backend skills. Based in Rochester, MN, he mentors developers publicly and prefers roles that trust him to deliver and lead with a “get it done” attitude.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Winona State University
Stackoverflow
19,084reputation
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339answers
560questions
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Github Skills (28)
database-migrations10
javascript10
mongodb-database10
database-migration10
nodejs10
mongodb10
jquery9
height9
smtp9
css9
textbox9
jsf9
php9
ruby-on-rails9
codeigniter9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
db-migrate/node-db-migrate
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Database migration framework for node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 49 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on adding and improving MongoDB support for the database migration framework. Their contributions included implementing the `createCollection`, `dropCollection`, `renameCollection`, `addIndex`, and `removeIndex` functionalities within the MongoDB driver. They also created methods for inserting and deleting migration records, and updated the code to include a migrations table. The user's work expanded the database migration framework's capabilities to support the MongoDB database.
migration-toolmysqlnodejsdatabasedatabase-migration
catalyticlabs/catalytic-sdk-php
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Catalytic Developer SDK for PHP
Contributions:12 releases, 2 reviews, 68 PRs in 11 months
phpsdk
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