Tom Paulus
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarTom Paulus is a Senior System Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud control planes, currently focused on Control Plane work at Cloudflare in Seattle. He previously designed and was a primary contributor to the Amazon EC2 Image Builder control plane at AWS, blending hands-on engineering with operational leadership and incident response as part of AWS call leader rotations. Tom has a strong track record of shipping production services, mentoring teams on architecture and reliability, and driving operational excellence for customer-facing cloud platforms. His background includes full-lifecycle service design, internal tooling and dashboard development, and coordinating cross-functional efforts from early prototypes to globally available services. He brings a practical, systems-first mindset grounded in a Computer Science degree from San Diego State and an international perspective from study abroad in Finland. Colleagues value him for steady incident leadership and an ability to translate complex distributed-systems challenges into pragmatic, reliable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (87)
python10
automation10
cloudflare-api10
home-assistant10
markdown10
mqtt10
api10
sdk10
home-automation10
cloudflare-dns10
garden10
iot10
amazon10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tpaulus/terraform-hashi
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Hashicorp Product (Nomad, Consul, etc.) Terraform Configurations
Contributions:102 PRs, 440 pushes, 99 branches in 10 months
sdsu-its/video-inv
Feb 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 5 months
inventorymanagement-systeminventory-management-systemaccountabilityinventory-management
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