Mitchell Thomas

Mentor, Communicator, Designer, Builder

Skills

• Mentor senior software engineers on the softskills needed for influence and team building.
• Deliver on business objectives through technology selection, design, and execution.
• Promote an engineering culture of active curiosity and respectful analysis in remote settings.

Occupation

Oct 2022 - Present Cloudera, Inc., Portland, OR (remote)

• Principal Engineer Observability, Data Engineering
  • Leader of over 25 engineers delivering quarterly data engineering product releases both On Cloud (AWS, Azure) and On Premises in a Kubernetes form factor.
  • On-time delivery of Airflow technical preview for 5 very large enterprise customers.
  • Conducted technology research, evaluation and presentation of vector database options to build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) LLM solutions.
  • Collaborated across data service platform, observability, product management, and quality engineering teams to redesign measurement tooling system for TPC-DS Spark performance benchmarking, achieving 10x metric granularity and 2-year data retention for historical comparisons, replacing manual spreadsheet processes.
  • Delivered real time Cloudera Observability features introducing OpenTelemetry and Thanos, capturing over 5 million in revenue.
  • Mentor to engineers focusing on career ladder, improving team and cross-team communications, increasing productivity through coding assistant tooling.

Dec 2019 - Jan 2022 Open Cybersecurity Alliance

• Member of Technical Steering Committee and Architecture Working Group

2009 - Oct 2022 Fortra (formerly Tripwire Inc.), Portland, OR

• Senior Software Architect, Principal Developer
  • Managed strategic architect research team. Applied Team Topologies Fast Flow organizational methodology to Tripwire R&D.
• Senior Developer, Software Architect
  • Principal developer for many Tripwire products utilizing Kubernetes, micro-service patterns and asynchronous messaging. Bootstrapped near-shore team of 20 engineers in Mexico.

2004 - 2009 GemTalk Systems (formerly GemStone Inc.), Beaverton, OR

• Architect, Staff Engineer
  • Engineer on GemFire now Apache Geode, a distributed k/v store.

1996 - 2004 DoubleClick Inc. (formerly NetGravity Inc.), San Mateo, CA

• Engineer
  • Engineer on DoubleClick Ad technology acquired by Google in 2007 and still in use today.

Education

1987-1991 BSEE Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Patents

US Patent 10,313,257 Agent message delivery fairness

US Patent 9,992,230 Assessing security control quality and state in an information technology infrastructure.