Tom Rathborne
Site Reliability Engineer at Burning Man
Diemen, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Rathborne is a Site Reliability Engineer with 13+ years of experience building and stabilizing large-scale web and distributed systems, currently focused on Redis, Memcache and queue infrastructure at Booking.com. He blends deep systems and Linux expertise with practical software craftsmanship—comfortable in Perl, Python, Ruby and C—and a penchant for simplifying architectures and deleting cruft. An autodidact and engaging communicator, Tom mentors teams, gives training, and translates complex operational problems into maintainable CI/CD and Kubernetes-based solutions. His background ranges from hands-on virtualization and networking to data stores like Postgres, Redis and Kafka, informed by a B.Math in Computer Science and Philosophy from Waterloo. Outside conventional roles he consults through Aceldama Systems and brings unconventional experience (and radio discipline) from long-term volunteer work as a Burning Man Ranger. Colleagues know him as “sporadically disruptive”: he favors pragmatic automation, research-led improvements, and long-term, sustainable system design.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Math Computer Science Philosophy, B.Math Computer Science Philosophy at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (163)
dashboard10
internet10
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shell10
blocker10
gmic10
dnsmasq10
scalar9
opengl9
golang9
minecraft9
image-viewer9
maven-plugin9
launcher9
jenkins-plugin9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
trathborne/mathmap
Feb 2016 - Nov 2019
An image processing programming language and GUI
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 years 10 months
pythonguimathematicaimage-processingprogramming-language
trathborne/ci-fly
Jul 2012 - Jun 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 11 months
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