Summary
Tommy Tatro is a results-driven Software Development Engineer II with nine years of experience building high-throughput data systems and developer tooling at Amazon Web Services out of Chicago. He has migrated MySQL ingestion to Spark pipelines, cut EMR Spark compute and storage costs by 70%, and was the first in his org to onboard a service onto Graviton2. Tommy’s background spans streaming, anomaly detection with Kinesis, and production machine learning collaborations, plus course infrastructure work that processed hundreds of thousands of grading records daily. He pairs strong systems-level optimization skills with practical product sense developed through internships and university course development. Comfortable across backend stacks (Spark, EMR, Node.js, React) and large-scale operational environments, he brings disciplined execution and cost-conscious engineering to complex distributed problems. Despite a modest GitHub bio, his track record shows a focus on impactful, production-grade systems rather than flashy repos.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign