Tom Goetz
Retired
Wareham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTom Goetz is a retired principal software engineer with 14 years of documented experience and a multi-decade career building virtualization, cloud migration, and embedded Unix systems. He led cloud and on-prem migration efforts at Citrix—designing .NET REST microservices, Python edge appliances, and full CI/CD pipelines—and has deep hands-on expertise in Linux, Xen, and kernel-level work. His background spans startups and acquisitions, from streaming and QoS systems to security and virtualization, giving him a practical edge in turning low-level constraints into reliable, scalable services. On GitHub he contributed backend improvements to GarminDB, simplifying JSON imports and enabling richer activity analysis from wearable data. Based in Wareham, Massachusetts, he couples systems-level craftsmanship with a history of leading cross-disciplinary teams and shipping production software under tight constraints. Even in retirement he retains a practical focus on tooling and data-driven solutions that bridge embedded devices and cloud analytics.
14 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) EE, Bachelor of Science (BS) EE at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (15)
python10
database9
sql9
jupyter-notebook9
databases9
python-dateutil8
json8
data-processing8
iconv6
csv6
php6
mod-rewrite6
apache6
amazon-web-services6
utf6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tcgoetz/GarminDB
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 4 reviews, 470 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the project. They addressed specific issues related to data conversion and processing of data from various fitness and health sources such as Garmin Connect, FitBit, and MS Health CSV files. They refactored parts of the code to simplify the JSON data import, improving performance and code readability. Additionally, they added features to facilitate improved activity analysis through the creation of a system to graph statistics of activities.
csvpythonanalyze-datagarminserverless
tcgoetz/utilities
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
A library of Python utilities useful for database and internal apps.
Contributions:43 commits, 3 PRs, 119 pushes in 7 months
python-utilitiespythonuseful-utilitiesnested-objectssqlite
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