Tom Roush
Lead Database Administrator
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Roush is a seasoned Lead Database Administrator based in Seattle with over 12 years at Avanade and a multi-decade career managing critical database environments for companies like Getty Images and Microsoft. He combines deep operational expertise across dev/test/staging/production stacks with hands-on back-end development—evidenced by his contributions to an Android port of Apache PdfBox on GitHub. A frequent conference presenter on SQL topics, Tom blends technical leadership with knowledge sharing and practical problem-solving. His background also includes teaching and a creative history as a professional photographer, reflecting an uncommon mix of analytical rigor and visual creativity.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Seattle Pacific UniversityGifford Grade SchoolMA, MA at Ohio UniversityDiploma, Diploma at Bethel Senior High School
English, German
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Github Skills (6)
javas10
pdf10
android10
java10
stored-procedures6
ssms6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TomRoush/PdfBox-Android
Jan 2014 - Jan 2023
The Apache PdfBox project ported to work on Android
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 74 reviews, 288 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Tom's commits focus on creating and modifying the code. The initial commit, while basic, indicates the initiation of the project. Subsequent commits include code differences in the org.apache.pdfboxandroid package, indicating contributions to the project.
apache-pdfboxandroid-libraryandroidapachepdfbox
TomRoush/comcastUsage-for-influxdb
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
This tool allows you to run periodic comcast data usage checks and save the results to InfluxDB for graphing in Grafana
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 6 commits in 10 months
influxperiodicinfluxdbchecksgrafana
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