Jose Thomas

Engineering Manager

San Jose, California, United States30 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of orchestration systems at Netflix.
Designed scalable services for real-time collaboration.
Automated operational issues with microservices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in cloud computing and orchestration systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSystem ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentMicroservices

Other Skills

ScalabilityDistributed SystemsAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AWSContinuous DeliveryInternetSOAHadoopPerlRESTDatabasesSoftware EngineeringWeb ServicesUnix

Experience

30 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Netflix

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

I lead the Studio Orchestrator Platform team.
The Studio Orchestrator platform provides a powerful stateful process orchestration system which serves as the underpinning for building several content production workflows in Live Action, Animation and Visual Effects spaces.

Cloud ComputingSystem ArchitectureScalabilityDistributed SystemsAgile Methodologies

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Oct 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Upwork

Director

Apr 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Interactive Collaboration Platform (similar to Slack, growing 5-7% a week)
Designed and developed low-latency, high throughput scalable self-healing services to manage presence and real-time communication, broadcast/push messaging based on several open source technologies including Websockets/Netty, Atmosphere, Hazelcast running on AWS.
Responsible for several infrastructure services including an extensible user and app permissions service, user management service, graph service, files service, and more based on open source technologies including jetty
Established continuous deployment build system with several releases a day.
Hired and led a team of stellar engineers.

Cloud ComputingAgile MethodologiesSoftware DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Elance (merged with odesk to become upwork)

Engineering Manager

Apr 2013 – Mar 2014 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Automated common operational issues and built a self-healing system that fixes itself.
Microservices Platform
Designed and co-authored the cloud ready micro-services platform to replace the legacy PHP/LAMP based labor marketplace doing over 400M+ in transactions.
Facilitated the move to EC2 and adoption of noSQL datastores.
Instituted the continuous delivery process and system
Hired and led a team of stellar engineers.

Cloud ComputingMicroservicesContinuous Delivery