Summary
Tomas Batalla is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading teams to build reliable, production-grade systems across consumer and AWS platforms, currently managing multiple engineering teams at Google from Seattle. He has a strong track record at Amazon driving high-impact initiatives—most notably optimizing Just Walk Out operations with ML and heuristics to increase associate throughput by 150% and cut annual costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tomas blends hands-on engineering (React Native, Swift, GraphQL, Kinesis) with operational excellence programs that reduced recurring tickets and time-to-resolution by ~20%, while maintaining perfect retention on his teams. He is skilled at shipping fast, safe releases through CI/CD best practices and mentoring engineers into senior roles. A former bilingual 4th-grade teacher, he brings uncommon communication and coaching skills to technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Virginia
Spanish, French, Italian