Tom Wanielista
Principal Engineer, Tech Lead Of Infrastructure at Lyft
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTom Wanielista is a Principal Engineer and tech lead focused on infrastructure with 14 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms from developer tooling to global service meshes. At Lyft he has driven company-wide cost reduction and performance tuning across thousands of services, led the migration to Kubernetes, and redesigned networking and RPC/storage patterns to optimize ML and product workloads. He combines hands-on systems engineering—authoring critical Kubernetes and Envoy integrations—with org-level leadership, writing vision and aligning 150+ engineers toward platform and cost goals. Prior roles at Simple Finance saw him pioneer early infrastructure-as-code tooling, bring PCI compliance, and ship initial iOS/web product work, reflecting a rare full-stack-to-infra trajectory. Based in San Francisco and originally from Poland, he pairs deep technical ownership with strategic execution that reduces operational toil and frees engineers to move faster.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at New York University
English, Polish, Spanish
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Github Skills (125)
programming-language10
proxy10
accelerator10
interpreter10
scheduling10
mesos10
sdk10
golang10
high-performance10
kubernetes10
aws-sdk10
go10
docker10
aws10
compiler9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SimpleFinance/sensu-transport-snssqs
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
amazonsnstransportawsamazon-sns
lyft/kubernetes
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:10 reviews, 77 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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