Tom Kapanka
Director Of Infrastructure at SINDRI
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Kapanka is a seasoned infrastructure leader with 14+ years building cloud-native platforms, currently serving as Director of Infrastructure in San Diego. He blends hands-on expertise in AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, and containerization with a bottom-up managerial style that grows teams and operational confidence. His career spans startups and scale-ups—leading platform, DevOps, and engineering organizations at companies like Element Analytics, Medal, and Rapid7—while also contributing to the Plone Foundation since 2003. Known for turning monitoring and deployment tooling into measurable competitive advantages, he pairs Python and systems-level coding with product-minded process design. An early adopter of observability and automation patterns, he often favors leveraging existing talent and assets to accelerate delivery rather than starting from scratch.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Plan of Individualized Study Gallatin School, Bachelor of Arts - BA Plan of Individualized Study Gallatin School at New York University
English, python, bash
Github Skills (188)
terraform10
infrastructure10
terraform-module10
ecosystem10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
vault10
golang10
container10
graph10
terragrunt10
docker10
hcl10
terraform-provider10
aws10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spanktar/rubberband
Nov 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 3 months
spanktar/darkcrystal
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 1 day
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