Tom Kawchak
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTom Kawchak is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with 11 years of experience focused on large-scale software, big data, and distributed systems, currently working in the Office of the CTO. He progressed through multiple engineering roles at Microsoft—including Project Science Engine—after a solid foundation of research and internships during his time at Penn State. Comfortable bridging research and production, he brings practical expertise from embedded and HCI research to cloud-scale projects. Based in Seattle, he combines a dual academic background in Computer Engineering and Mathematics with hands-on experience shipping complex systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns experimental ideas into production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering and Mathematics at Penn State UniversityPhoenixville Area High School
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Github Skills (28)
visuals8
azure-devops7
azure-machine-learning7
powershell7
external7
azure7
kebab-case6
docker-volume6
facilities6
task-parallel-library6
sdk6
devops6
docker6
python6
multithreading6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tkawchak/TextAnalysisExtension
Jan 2019 - Nov 2023
This is being built as a Firefox Extension to create summaries and compute readability of webpage text.
Contributions:1 review, 102 PRs, 197 pushes in 4 years 10 months
webpagefirefoxazure-resourcesazure-functionsfirefox-extension
tkawchak/KaggleResearch
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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