Tomas Isdal
Director Software Engineering at Databricks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTomas Isdal is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15 years building cloud-native and serverless platforms, now directing engineering at Databricks after five influential years leading Google Cloud AI and AppSheet. He grew Google’s Seattle serverless team from a single engineer to 50, helped found and contribute to Knative, and drove a GenAI-first shift that brought Gemini-powered no-code app creation to business users. With a PhD in computer science and hands-on roots in Java, C++ and Python, he blends research rigor with product-driven execution across distributed systems and developer platforms. A former founder of a music discovery startup, he brings entrepreneurially minded product intuition to large-scale platform engineering.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of WashingtonMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyViktor Rydberg Gymnasium
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (32)
kubernetes10
faas10
privacy-preserving10
istio10
serverless10
paas10
knative10
documentation10
peer-to-peer9
data-sharing9
mechanics9
broadcast-receiver9
governance9
p2p8
scale8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CSEMike/OneSwarm
Apr 2011 - Apr 2012
Privacy preserving peer-to-peer data sharing
Contributions:180 commits in 1 year
privacyp2psharingdata-sharingpeer-to-peer
isdal/isdal-homepage
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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