Troy Collinsworth
Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect Percipio at Skillsoft
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTroy Collinsworth is a seasoned Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect with over 14 years of focused experience delivering high-performance, distributed and cloud-native systems at Skillsoft and prior IoT and telecom firms. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Java, concurrency, messaging (Kafka, JMS, AMQP), and both SQL and NoSQL design with a strong track record building generative AI and ML-enabled products using Python and TensorFlow. Troy has repeatedly led architectural strategy and execution across microservices, large-scale data platforms, and high-concurrency messaging systems while driving SDLC best practices like Agile and TDD. His background spans edge-to-cloud IoT solutions, telecom OSS, payroll and GIS systems, reflecting an unusual breadth from low-level performance tuning to enterprise architecture. Based in Rochester, NY, he pairs formal Java certifications and decades of systems experience with practical DevOps skills (Docker, Ansible, Packer) to shepherd prototypes into production. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, performance-first designs that balance cutting-edge AI capabilities with proven engineering discipline.
14 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at Northern Virginia Community CollegeEngineering, Engineering at Okaloosa-Walton Jr. CollegeTechnical Training, Technical Training at USAFCIS, CIS at Strayer University
English
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Github Skills (101)
elasticsearch10
dns-lookup10
search-engine10
periodic10
java10
synchronous10
restful10
async9
disable9
rest9
api9
ava9
opensearch9
adonisjs9
golden-layout9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tcollinsworth/axios-cached-dns-resolve
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Uses async dns.resolve instead of synchronous dns.lookup, optional cache, and periodic background refreshing
Contributions:2 reviews, 42 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 2 months
resolvednsresolverperiodicnodejs
tcollinsworth/kafka-publisher
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
publishes keyed JSON messages to kafka with retries, falling back to logging to a file if kafka unavailable until kafka available
Contributions:21 PRs, 60 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 3 months
sinkkeyedretriesuntillogging
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