Thomas Buida
Software Engineer
Currently working on software infrastructure at Tektronix
Work
I am a physicist turned software engineer with extensive experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining software to solve complex problems. I'm interested in distributed systems, functional programming, and the development of computational tools to support research in the biological sciences.
My Most Used Languages/Frameworks/Technologies
- Node / Express / NestJS
- Python / FastAPI
- Elixir / Phoenix
- Scikit-learn
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- AWS CDK
- AWS DynamoDB
- AWS EventBridge
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Fargate
- AWS Athena
- AWS S3
- AWS SQS
- AWS SNS
- GCP BigQuery
- Apache Airflow
- Redis
A Few Highlights:
- 2023 ⋅ Working on software infrastructure at Tektronix
- 2021 ⋅ Promoted to Cloud Architect at Tektronix. I provide technical leadership to the Initial State and TekCloud teams
- 2020 ⋅ Co-founded GenomelyBio - creating open source software for the bioinformatics community
- 2018 ⋅ Joined Initial State (acquired by Tektronix) as a Software Engineer working on a real-time data streaming service
- 2016 ⋅ Joined GameWisp (acquired by Lightstream / Infiniscene, Inc) as a Software Engineer building tools in the gaming/live-streaming space
- 2014 ⋅ Worked as a Staff Physicist at an Accredited Calibration Dosimetry Laboratory
- 2014 ⋅ Graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in physics from Kent State University
- 2012 ⋅ Undergraduate researcher at the Liquid Crystal Institute
Select Open Source Projects I've Contributed To:
- PhyKIT - toolkit for processing and analyzing phylogenomic data
- ClipKIT - an alignment trimming tool for the bioinformatics community
- Apache Airflow - a data workflow management platform
- BetterTTV - a browser extension to enhance your experience on Twitch
Publications:
View my publications on Google Scholar
About
When I'm not coding, you can usually find me rock climbing or playing guitar. I also enjoy reading, 3D-printing, learning languages, sim racing, and gaming with friends.
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