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

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

• Principle Engineer II

Architect for Cloudera Observability, introducing real time metrics using OpenTelemetry and Thanos.

Member of engineering promotion team, providing feedback and advice to engineers and managers to grow their teams.

Dec 2019 - Jan 2022 Open Cybersecurity Alliance

• Member of Technical Steering Committee and Architecture Working Group

Jun 2021 - Sep 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.

Aug 2012 - Jun 2021 Fortra (formerly Tripwire Inc.), Portland, OR

• Software Architect, Principle Developer

Principle developer for many Tripwire products utilizing Kubernetes, micro-service patterns and asynchronous messaging.

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. (formaly NetGravity Inc.), San Mateo, CA

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.