Tom Switzer
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Pickering, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTom Switzer is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building ML and data infrastructure, currently focused on Machine Learning Infrastructure at Netflix. He has a strong background in backend systems from roles at Stripe and Fragment and a history of shaping production ML/data pipelines and developer tooling. An active open-source contributor, Tom implemented a robust rational number type and test suite for the well-regarded Scala Spire library, reflecting attention to correctness and numeric abstractions. Based in Pickering, Ontario, he blends research-adjacent roles in computational biology with fintech and streaming-scale systems, enabling pragmatic engineering choices across domains. Collected experience across startups and large platforms gives him a practical, quality-first approach to scaling ML platforms.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Windsor
English
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Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
scala10
python9
algebraic-data-types9
scalaz6
php6
abstract-data-types6
numeric6
jquery6
pattern-matching6
chunks6
trie6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/spire
Nov 2011 - Jan 2019
Powerful new number types and numeric abstractions for Scala.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:322 commits, 36 PRs, 31 pushes in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom implemented a new rational data type for the Spire library, including both core functionality for construction and arithmetic operations. This involved creating a private, immutable class for handling rational numbers, along with companion objects for constructing them, and providing implicit conversion functions. The user also developed a test suite for the new rational number type, ported from JUnit to ScalaTest, which demonstrates a focus on quality assurance and testing.
abstractionsscalafunctional-programming
tixxit/spire
Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:9 commits, 42 pushes, 49 branches in 5 months
abstractionsscalafunctional-programming
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