Tom Griffey
Lead Software Engineer at RootNote
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolTom Griffey is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on and leadership experience building data-driven web and backend systems, currently leading development of a social media analytics app in New Orleans. He has led data engineering at climate tech and music/rights startups, architecting TB-scale BigQuery warehouses, ETL pipelines, and Postgres schemas that power ML and geospatial products. Comfortable as a player-coach, Tom hires and mentors distributed teams, implements SDLC best practices, and drives migrations to Infrastructure-as-Code while using AI coding tools to speed delivery. His background blends music industry integrations, healthcare and digital therapeutics projects, and enterprise data reconciliation—skills anchored by ongoing graduate study in Energy Policy & Climate at Johns Hopkins. Notably, he moves fluidly between low-level engineering (C/C++) and modern cloud analytics, showing a rare mix of systems depth and product-focused data engineering.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Music, Bachelor of Arts - BA Music at New York UniversityMaster of Science - MS (in progress) Energy Policy & Climate, Master of Science - MS (in progress) Energy Policy & Climate at Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs
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Github Skills (5)
aggregate7
jquery-plugin4
jquery4
edtech2
search-engine2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NashvilleSoftwareSchool/cohort-10-website
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 10 months
tombler/sYnthesYs
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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