Tom Harper
Principal Engineer at Amazon
California, United States
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Top SchoolTom Harper is a Principal Engineer and former CTO with 19 years of experience architecting real-time media and AI-driven systems that scale to millions of devices and 100m+ users. He has led and hired large engineering organizations (40–200+), served as an Amazon bar raiser across 1100+ interviews, and chartered cross-disciplinary products like smart glasses, VAPR, and in-vehicle telematics that blend edge ML, sensor fusion, and privacy-aware data strategies. A founding engineer on Alexa Communications, he helped ship Echo Auto and 100+ Alexa devices, and his work spans hundreds of services across edge, web, and mobile. He combines deep systems and multimedia expertise (C/C++, codecs, RTP/HLS, OpenGL/Metal) with modern AI/ML tooling (PyTorch, VLMs, LLMs) to deliver humans-first augmentation products. Notably, he pairs product instincts from multiple startups and TechCrunch-recognized ventures with rigorous security and privacy practices, including app attestation and EU-compliant data design. Based in California, he still jokes about building the Minority Report—looking for the next opportunity to make context-aware computing feel effortless.
19 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MiramonteUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
persistent9
nginx8
docker8
serverless8
kong8
database8
multiclass-classification8
api8
gateway8
embeddable8
storage8
artificial-intelligence8
reverse-proxy7
machine-learning-models7
devops7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
showkit/conference
Feb 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
swiftiosswiftui
showkit/openh264
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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