Tom Todd
Lead Software Engineer at Oracle
West Pikeland Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Todd is a Lead Software Engineer with 25+ years of database-focused experience and a decade of formal software engineering roles, currently driving database performance and deployment strategy at Oracle. He specializes in data modeling, near-zero-downtime upgrade systems, deadlock and bottleneck resolution, and tooling for performance monitoring and automated database change delivery. Tom combines deep operational expertise from long tenures at Siemens and Cerner with hands-on open-source contributions to the Lutris project, where he improved Wine/DXVK integration and Steam syncing—an unusual cross-over of enterprise database rigor and consumer-facing UI/UX work. Based in Pennsylvania and holding a B.S. in Mathematical Computer Science, he is pragmatic about shipping reliable systems and quietly obsessed with squeezing maximum performance out of complex database environments.
10 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematical Computer Science, B.S., Mathematical Computer Science at Commonwealth University-Lock Haven
Github Skills (9)
app-launcher10
gtk10
python10
gam10
wine10
application-launcher10
launcher10
user-interface9
git4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lutris/lutris
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Lutris desktop client
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 25 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the Lutris desktop client's graphical user interface and runner configurations, specifically focusing on Wine integration. They implemented features related to DXVK and Esync, enhancing the gaming experience. The contributions include modifying dialogs, adding checks for root user access, and improving the user interface. Furthermore, they made changes to the Steam integration to improve the syncing process.
pygobjectpythongaminggame-launcherpython3
Tom-Todd/DMScreen
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
An application for keeping track of and generating information for dungeon masters in D&D fifth edition.
Contributions:7 releases, 20 PRs, 170 pushes in 14 days
dungeon-mastersdungeonmasterskeeping
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