Tom Shorock
IT Architect (Architect, Really ) at The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Shorock is an IT Architect with 10+ years of professional experience and a three-decade habit of being "root" since running his hometown BBS, now applying that mindset to university-scale infrastructure at the University of Kansas. He blends system administration, SRE/DevOps practices, and architecture to support library and research services—particularly search platforms like Solr/Elastic—and leads a small team that manages a dozen-plus Linux-based applications. Comfortable from low-level servers to application integration, he favors open source, Git-driven workflows, Ansible, Docker, and emerging cloud/container patterns while pragmatically wrestling with legacy vendor stacks. His background in educational technology and long tenure in grant-funded projects gives him a knack for delivering durable, budget-conscious solutions and accessible web services. Quietly polyglot, he codes in PHP and Python but regularly digs into Java, Ruby, Perl, XSLT, and frontend sprawl to keep systems running. Colleagues rely on him for practical architecture, weird corner-case fixes, and an institutional memory that predates the web.
10 years of coding experience
MS Ed, Educational Technology/Instructional Design, MS Ed, Educational Technology/Instructional Design at University of Kansas
Github Skills (44)
javascript10
xslt10
open-source10
archives10
java10
open-access10
rest-api10
creative-commons10
jruby10
asset-management10
dspace10
ruby9
mhealth9
create-project8
ojs7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kulibraries/islandora7-rest
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
shorock/islandora_satis
Nov 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 2 years 1 month
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