Tom Porkka
AI Systems Engineer (Backbone Network Infrastructure) at Meta
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTom Porkka is an AI systems engineer with nine years of experience building data platforms, analytics agents, and full‑stack tools to support backbone network infrastructure and multi‑hundred-million dollar investment decisions at Meta. He designs end‑to‑end systems—data ingestion, warehouses (Hive/Presto), modeling, and user-facing apps—that translate domain needs into scalable automation and decision support. Prior roles driving forecasting, ETL, and BI at Summit Materials and Crystal Equation honed his ability to cut costs, improve data quality, and accelerate delivery for large operational programs. Based in Denver, he pairs production engineering rigor with product sensibility and keeps his curiosity active through side projects like SetForge (band tooling) and Nulango (language learning), reflecting a knack for applying infrastructure-level thinking to consumer‑facing experiences.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Semester Abroad -Physics, Semester Abroad -Physics at Massey UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Beloit College
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
authentication7
api7
cli6
reporting-services6
powerbi6
aws6
storage6
aws-lambda6
sharepoint6
python6
lambda-functions6
web-development5
serverless5
nodejs5
aws-amplify5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Tporkka/Transform-and-Load-US-Census-Data-to-MongoDB
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
Tporkka/d3-User-Tracking-Map
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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