Tommy Markley
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolTommy Markley is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping full-stack, cloud-native solutions at Amazon, currently focused on AWS Infrastructure Security. He has led end-to-end initiatives—from inventing and delivering a patented multi-tenant service to launching OpenSearch Dashboards 1.0 and owning its security and vulnerability processes—demonstrating strong product ownership and a security-first mindset. Comfortable in both front-end (React, TypeScript) and back-end (Java, Node.js, DynamoDB, Lambda) stacks, he has improved developer workflows through documentation, triage, and design review practices. An active open-source contributor, Tommy has enhanced OpenSearch Dashboards’ UI and CI/NOTICE hygiene, reflecting attention to both user experience and compliance. Based in Minneapolis, he balances pragmatic engineering with mentorship, and once spent a sabbatical building a lakeside cabin—evidence of hands-on problem solving beyond code.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Big Lake High SchoolBachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude Computer Science and Mathematics at St. Olaf College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
uid10
opensearch10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
styles8
css8
cicd8
analytics7
searching7
apache5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards
May 2021 - Jan 2023
📊 Open source visualization dashboards for OpenSearch.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 558 reviews, 9 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Tommy Markley contributed significantly to updating the OpenSearch Dashboards user interface. His work included updating logos and favicons with new OpenSearch branding, enhancing the visual identity. He also addressed a misleading error message for embeddable plugins, improving the user experience. Furthermore, he was involved in updating and validating the NOTICE file and CI integrations.
analyticsdashboardsfossapache2opensearch
tmarkley/OpenSearch-Dashboards
May 2021 - Feb 2023
Open source visualization dashboards for OpenSearch.
Contributions:8 PRs, 307 pushes, 353 branches in 1 year 8 months
visualizationdashboardsopensearchdashboard
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