Tom Dane

https://www.tesla.com/

Tech Lead responsible for delivering organisational goals, setting technical direction, and system architecture.

Projects

• Battery orders: Led the timely delivery of a $600m project while coordinating across several departments
• Solar permitting: Guided a team to deliver a year-long project in 3 months
• Modernization: Drove a 25% increase in velocity for a department of 200 people by paying down tech-debt

Leadership

• Coaching: Mentorship of 3 teams, with 20 engineers, across 50 microservices
• Training: Organized brown-bag lectures on microservices, design patterns, and NoSQL
• Organizational impact: Onboarded a 100-person department to a new process that reduced database release times by 90%

Technology

• Jenkins, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, C#, .NET, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes

Owned the services that matched customers to vehicles.

Projects

• Vehicle API: Optimized logic for vehicle routing to save the company $1.1m per quarter
• Scaling: Horizontally distributed our vehicle matching system to resolve customer-facing slowness
• Modernization: Migrated legacy .NET framework services to .NET Core

Leadership

• Coaching: Ran workshops to train the organization in automated testing and TDD
• Hiring consistency: Reduced bias by creating a rubric for technical phone screens

Technology

• Docker, SQL Server, C#, .NET

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Built the Content Management System used by our marketing team.

Project

• Frontend performance: Decreased page-load times by 62% for SEO by delivering HTTP caching strategy
• Backend performance: Implemented application caching for a 10x boost to our max requests per second threshold
• Legacy migration: Rewrite of on-prem monolith to AWS microservices
• Continuous delivery: Built our CI pipeline with checks for code quality, test coverage, security, and site speed

Leadership

• Community engagement: Gave a conference talk on HTTP caching and wrote a blog post on monitoring-driven development
• Growth: Organised a functional programming guild to study Haskell
• Training: Held internal talks on functional methods in C# and JavaScript and AWS concepts

Technology

• TeamCity, C#, .NET, AWS, MongoDB, Node.js

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Delivered features for our technical support department.

Projects

• Customer value: Shipped improvements using microservices and Domain Driven Design
• Productivity: Automated manual tasks for our tech-support team using C# and SQL
• Devops: Ownership of production deployments, monitoring, alerting, and performance

Leadership

• Mentorship: Onboarded two graduate engineers to new team

Technology

• SQL Server, .NET, C#, Bamboo CI, AWS