Tom Slankard
Staff Software Engineer at Ouster
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTom Slankard is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with two decades of hands-on experience across systems and network programming, embedded Linux, GNSS/LiDAR, GIS, and scalable cloud APIs. He designs device drivers, configuration APIs, and visualization tools for LiDAR systems while also leading architecture, CI/CD, and automated test infrastructure. A practiced mentor and technical lead, he has overseen multi-language teams building both low-level userspace drivers and large distributed data platforms at companies like Ouster, Velodyne, and HERE. Comfortable across C/C++, Python, Java/Scala, and cloud tooling (AWS, Docker, Jenkins), he combines deep systems expertise with applied research in routing and spatial algorithms. Notably, his background spans novel 3D data compression and scientific visualization work, reflecting an unusual blend of graphics, mapping, and production-grade systems engineering.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering at University of California, Davis
Russian, English
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Github Skills (151)
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animation9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
twslankard/statemachine
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
A very rudimentary state machine in C++.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 10 months
cppstate-machinefsm-library
twslankard/python-chatroom
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 19 days
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