Thomas Kottke
Lead Software Engineer at Optum
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Kottke is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years of experience designing and shipping full‑stack web applications, currently leading two teams at Optum focused on scalable healthcare and education solutions. He combines practical system design and CI/CD expertise with hands‑on TypeScript/Node/React development, and has driven initiatives like a centralized authorization service and a microservice consolidation to improve maintainability. Thomas has built AI-enabled products—such as an Azure AI Foundry learning assistant—and champions pragmatic automation, including a Jenkins-to-GitHub Actions migration and custom CI actions. A mentor to engineers and a motorsports‑loving coffee drinker, he balances technical rigor with curiosity about emerging AI opportunities to solve real business problems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
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Github Skills (22)
material38
material-you7
solidjs7
express-router7
component-library7
spacex7
lit6
lit-html6
ui-toolkit6
lit-element6
web-components6
space4
material-design3
obsidian3
markdown3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tkottke90/Space-Engineers-Scripts
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Library of my scripts for the Space Engineers Game
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 10 months
space-engineersengineersspacex
tkottke90/go_cart_stats
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Progressive Web Application to track go cart stats for family trip
Contributions:9 PRs, 92 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 4 months
golangweb-applicationprogressivestatscart
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