Thomas Rausch
Co-Founder at LocalStack
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolThomas Rausch is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder with 14 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native developer tools from Vienna. As Head of Engineering at LocalStack he combines hands-on backend development—contributing key SQS, S3 and DynamoDB improvements to the widely used LocalStack open-source project—with strategic ownership of hiring, processes and product direction. He also founded Cognitive XR to explore edge computing, AR and AI for wearable cognitive augmentation, showing a taste for cutting-edge systems research beyond core cloud tooling. Known for pairing production-quality code with team productivity gains, he keeps a 10,000-foot view while still shipping low-level fixes and features that materially improve developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyIngenieur (Ing.) Print and Media Technology, Ingenieur (Ing.) Print and Media Technology at Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt
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Github Skills (28)
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python10
amazon-sqs10
aws-sqs-fifo10
aws-sdk10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
localstack/localstack
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1288 reviews, 353 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on implementing and refactoring back-end functionality for the LocalStack project. Contributions include fixing bugs and adding features related to SQS, such as ensuring the correct handling of message attribute filters and the introduction of content-based message deduplication in FIFO queues. The code changes also involved refactoring the S3, DynamoDB, and general AWS service (ASF) implementations, modifying response headers, and streamlining the server-side handling and API of various other components.
aws-cloudserverlessawslocalstacktesting
thrau/wicket-ace
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
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