Topher聽Dick
Principal Engineer at Torc Robotics
Dublin, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolTopher Dick is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of focused experience in platform engineering, SRE, and DevOps, currently based in Dublin, Ohio and driving autonomous vehicle engineering at Torc Robotics. He has a proven track record designing and operating installation and configuration tooling for complex AI/ML SaaS and on鈥憄rem products, and has led multi-cloud, secure deployment and observability initiatives at companies like DataRobot and Voxel51. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and people lead, he has repeatedly reduced costs and delivery timelines through automation, infrastructure consolidation, and pragmatic architecture choices. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has worked on the FiftyOne project refining dataset and app configuration docs and release preparation鈥攄emonstrating attention to operational detail in ML tooling. He pairs technical depth across cloud, container, and systems engineering with an MBA-led business perspective, enabling him to translate engineering tradeoffs into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration Management and Operations, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration Management and Operations at Franklin University
English
Github Skills (5)
python10
documentation10
git9
pip9
release-management8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
voxel51/fiftyone
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Refine high-quality datasets and visual AI models
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 139 reviews, 4 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Topher primarily focused on updating the documentation for the FiftyOne App, specifically regarding configuration options such as the default app address and port. They also rolled back a `strawberry-graphql` dependency and bumped several package versions (`fiftyone`, `fiftyone-desktop`, `voxel51-eta`, and `fiftyone-brain`). Additionally, they were involved in merging changes and preparing releases.
pytorchpythonvisiondata-sciencedeep-learning
voxel51/fiftyone-teams-app-deploy
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Deployment Assets for the Fiftyone Teams App
Contributions:59 releases, 300 reviews, 89 commits in 8 months
deploymentassetsteams-appfiftyone
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