Tom Wheeler

• Architected and implemented new core backend services, including an accounting ledger and food benefits management, enabling Healthy Together to pursue new revenue channels.
• Authored RFCs and set technical direction to empower cross-functional teams.
• Collaborated with product and client engineering teams to build resilient, scalable, and efficient solutions.
• Leveraged AI tooling for enhanced efficiency in development, testing, and debugging processes.

• Led project development teams in collaboration with product managers and designers.
• Mentored other developers through pairing, code reviews, technical design sessions, and team huddles.
• Co-authored a new data ingestion service to automate the input of sales lead information and product life-cycle data from lending partners, speeding up the sales process and enabling status tracking of customer lending applications.
• Collaborated regularly with team members on development processes, values, and performance metrics.

• Authored a software assessment to provide understanding of application value for future resource allocation and investment.
• Created project proposals and documentation.
• Mentored and trained current team members.
• Assisted clients in building more robust and up-to-date CI/CD pipelines.

• Led project for a microservice written in Go to provide a search API for physical spaces.
• Designed and implemented a Go full-stack user sync application to extract customer LDAP/AD users and groups to Teem's user directory.
• Optimized Google user sync for all customers by 40x.
• Led development team in defining user stories, facilitating agile processes, shepherding release processes, and assisting Product Managers in defining and refining new products and features.
• Helped maintain existing Django applications.

• Helped establish the Nike consulting contract from a professional network built during an earlier engagement (July 2014 - January 2016).

• Built full-stack solutions to serve content for the Nike.com website and content authoring.
• Implemented a major data migration for reorganizing all brand content for Nike.com.
• Provided expertise and answers to outside teams for applications and web APIs.
• Participated in Agile/Scrum processes, e.g. peer review, estimation, retrospectives.
• Demonstrated concepts and solutions to product stakeholders and team members of various skill sets and technical understanding.

• Built J2EE BEA WebLogic based solutions and web APIs.
• Implemented custom data interfaces to migrate legacy data into the core product platform.

• Built full-stack solutions in the JBoss J2EE container.
• Implemented internal web APIs and consumed outside web APIs from various telecom partners.
• Designed and implemented solutions in collaboration with development and DBA teams, working closely with business analysts, department managers, product owners, QA engineers, and users to define requirements for new features or changes.

• Provided guidance on technology usage and implementation for the Field Services group.

• Built full-stack solutions in the JBoss J2EE container.
• Implemented internal web APIs and consumed outside web APIs from various telecom partners.
• Designed and implemented solutions in collaboration with development and DBA teams, working closely with business analysts, department managers, product owners, QA engineers, and users to define requirements for new features or changes.

• Built WAN network connections for OSI Layers 2 & 3 on Alcatel network equipment via virtual interfaces.

A new joke every 12 to 24 hours.

• Infrastructure: Docker container on Google Cloud Run with autoscaling; Google Cloud Tasks queue driving randomized-interval survey scheduling.
• Backend: Go with chi routing, server-side templating using Templ, and GCP Firestore API interactions.
• Frontend: Pure CSS with custom styles and vanilla JS.
• Database: GCP Firestore.

Home Kubernetes cluster running k3s on repurposed bare-metal hardware, fully managed via GitOps.

• GitOps: ArgoCD reconciles all cluster state from Git, with SOPS-encrypted secrets decrypted only at sync time.
• SSO across every internal service via Authelia 2FA backed by an LLDAP directory, enforced at the Traefik ingress layer.
• Public/internal DNS split: Cloudflare Tunnel exposes only the public app with zero inbound ports opened on the home network, while internal CoreDNS/ExternalDNS auto-register everything else for LAN-only access.
• 4-node bare-metal topology on heterogeneous, repurposed desktop hardware, with node scheduling constraints to keep heavy workloads off the weakest node.
• Self-hosted platform apps: Forgejo (git), Headlamp (cluster dashboard), kube-prometheus-stack (monitoring).