Tom Harbert
Tech Lead Manager at Mysten Labs
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Harbert is a Tech Lead Manager with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale network and production systems, currently leading teams at Mysten Labs after a multi-year tenure designing and automating Facebook’s global backbone and datacenter networks. He blends deep networking expertise (CCIE-level background) with hands-on DevOps and production tooling—improving build, deployment, and testnet infrastructure for high-throughput projects like the Sui smart contract platform. Tom specializes in blurring the lines between systems and networking, bringing systems-scaling practices to networking automation and provisioning across cloud, datacenter, and edge environments. He has a track record of shipping pragmatic infrastructure improvements that span hardware, software, and CI/CD, and is comfortable leading both operational incident work and long-term platform evolution. Based in the United States with an international career arc across Australia, Canada, and the U.S., he pairs technical depth with cross-cultural operational experience.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Data Communications, Bachelor of Information Technology Data Communications at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Github Skills (13)
distributed-ledger10
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
blockchain10
distributed-ledger-technology10
release-management9
automation9
automations9
build-tools9
build-system9
rust4
go4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MystenLabs/sui
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Sui, a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:100 reviews, 46 commits, 106 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Tom's contributions center on improving the build and deployment processes for the Sui platform. They updated Docker configurations to ensure cross-platform compatibility, particularly outside of macOS. The user also added components to the sui-tools image, including an RPC server and a faucet. Furthermore, they updated the testing environment by renaming and adding testnet configurations, indicating a focus on expanding the testing infrastructure.
ethereumcontractsmart-contract-platformprogramming-languagesui
tharbert/netchain
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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