Tommy Carpenter
Principal Engineer at Equinix
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolTommy Carpenter is a Principal Engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and eleven years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems. He currently architects global Kubernetes clusters and manages a geo-distributed NATS supercluster at Equinix, and previously served as the founding engineer at a seed-stage startup that grew to post-Series B. His background includes five years at AT&T Research designing large-scale virtualized telecom systems and driving CI/CD and transient Kubernetes test environments. Tommy combines deep distributed-systems expertise with hands-on ownership of API, IAM, and messaging platforms, and has built industry-grade time-series and reconciliation systems in production. Based in the New York City area, he blends research rigor with startup velocity and a track record of turning experimental prototypes into auditable, scalable services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Plainville High SchoolBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Central Connecticut State UniversityPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
testing10
statusline10
swagger10
instrumentation10
flask-application10
oas10
scheduling10
protoc10
vim10
code-generation10
specification10
linter10
openapi10
todoist10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
tommyjcarpenter/dictsearch
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 27 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 7 months
querypythonpython-utilitydictionariespath
merqube/merqube-client-lib
May 2023 - Oct 2023
Merqube API Client Library (Python)
Contributions:90 reviews, 108 PRs, 270 pushes in 5 months
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