Tom Mccaffery
Senior Software Engineer - VeloCloud SD-WAN at Arista Networks
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Mccaffery is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building SD‑WAN and cloud management systems, currently driving VeloCloud development at Arista Networks after a tenure through VMware and Broadcom. He blends deep front‑end craftsmanship—decades of work creating responsive, accessible, and animated web experiences—with systems engineering skills in APIs, microservices, and infrastructure automation (Ansible, Docker, AWS). As a former partner and technical director at a boutique agency, he has led small teams, shipped 30+ bespoke WordPress-backed sites, and created custom frameworks to share components and style guides across projects. Tom is comfortable owning product features end-to-end, from UI design and client-facing consultation to backend integrations and deployments, and he has experience aligning engineering work with business and support stakeholders. Notably, he transitioned from rich client-side development into complex SD‑WAN product engineering, demonstrating a rare combination of polished UX sensibility and networked systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
Swedish, English
Github Skills (121)
sublime-merge10
atomic-design9
pattern9
gulp9
photography9
gulp-file-include9
use-strict9
launcher9
wpf9
plugin9
sublime9
static-assets9
pattern-lab9
computer-vision8
steam8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tommcc/firefox-csshacks
Feb 2019 - Oct 2024
Collection of userstyles affecting the browser
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
firefoxbrowsercssjavascriptbookmarklet
tommcc/grunt-eco
Jan 2015 - Jul 2020
JavaScript your Embedded CoffeeScript Templates!
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
javascripttypescriptembedded
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