Tom Setkowski
Lead Infrastructure Consultant at (ThoughtWorks) Government sector client
New Zealand
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Top SchoolTom Setkowski is a Lead Infrastructure Consultant based in New Zealand with 11 years' experience designing and operating cloud-native distributed systems and developer platforms. He blends hands-on engineering, team leadership and consulting—running projects from technical vision to delivery for government and financial clients while coaching teams to own architecture and operations. A polyglot programmer and DevOps advocate, Tom champions "infrastructure as code" and pipelines-as-code, contributing to GoCD and extending community tooling such as Consul cookbooks and Dojo. He has a proven track record of rapidly delivering production services (including a serverless paid API for a nonprofit) and migrating monoliths to API-first microservices to shorten release cycles. Comfortable in high-assurance, regulated environments, he pairs stakeholder influence with rigorous automation, testing and governance. Always seeking incremental improvements, Tom combines pragmatic problem-solving with a passion for open-source collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology and Econometrics, Information Technology and Econometrics at University of LodzBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of LondonBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
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Github Skills (21)
cookbook10
testing10
swagger10
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
ruby9
docker9
azure6
logging6
keras6
coreos6
docker-registry6
azure-redis-cache6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/consul
May 2015 - Oct 2015
Development repository for the consul cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing and testing the `consul` cookbook. They updated checksums for specific Consul versions, modifying the `default.rb` attributes file. Furthermore, the user introduced a new `consul_ui` resource, including its implementation, chefspec tests, and style fixes. Finally, the user added support to specify explicit service names, further expanding the features of the cookbook.
cookbookchef-resourceconsulmanaged-by-terraformchef
kudulab/docker-ansible-dojo
Jan 2018 - Aug 2021
Docker dojo image to serve as ansible controller
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 7 months
controllerdojoansibleservedocker
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