Tom Ploskina
Principal Software Engineer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Ploskina is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience delivering software and DevOps solutions in drug discovery and biotech, currently advancing discovery efforts at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. He blends a research background (B.S. in Biological Sciences) with deep hands-on expertise in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java Spring, PHP, Linux administration, and cloud-native AWS tooling (EC2, S3, ECS, Lambda, CDK, CodePipeline). Tom has a track record of building LIMS and clinical genetics applications, translating lab workflows into reliable, auditable systems that bridge scientists and production engineering. Comfortable across backend, infrastructure, and CI/CD, he emphasizes pragmatic engineering for regulated environments. Bilingual in English and Spanish, he brings both technical depth and cross-cultural collaboration to multidisciplinary teams.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Biological Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS Biological Sciences at University of Pittsburgh
English, Spanish
Github Skills (59)
pubmed10
javascript10
material-components10
ui-components10
typescript10
barrage10
ncbi10
vuejs310
semantic10
vue-component10
vue10
vuetify10
neumorphism10
webpack9
ui-design9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tmpjr/pubmed
May 2013 - Nov 2017
A PHP 5.3+ wrapper to the NCBI/PubMed efetch API
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 7 months
apincbiphp-5phpefetch
tmpjr/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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