Summary
Tom Meagher is a DevOps Team Lead with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure across startups and enterprise environments from Seattle. He combines deep Linux systems knowledge with Python and Java development to lead SRE and test automation efforts, having shipped reliability improvements at Thumbtack and Hitachi before moving into senior infrastructure and leadership roles at Ad Hoc. Tom is comfortable across the cloud-native stack—AWS, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins and PostgreSQL—while also bringing low-level HA expertise in clustering and Pacemaker. He has a research-adjacent background from MIT and a dual focus in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, which informs a pragmatic, human-centered approach to systems design. Known for turning complex reliability requirements into automated, auditable pipelines, he blends hands-on coding with team coaching. Quietly pragmatic, he often surfaces subtle fault modes early through rigorous test automation and systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Andover High