Tom Paulus
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarTom Paulus is a Senior System Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud control planes, currently focused on Control Plane work at Cloudflare in Seattle. He previously designed and was a primary contributor to the Amazon EC2 Image Builder control plane at AWS, blending hands-on engineering with operational leadership and incident response as part of AWS call leader rotations. Tom has a strong track record of shipping production services, mentoring teams on architecture and reliability, and driving operational excellence for customer-facing cloud platforms. His background includes full-lifecycle service design, internal tooling and dashboard development, and coordinating cross-functional efforts from early prototypes to globally available services. He brings a practical, systems-first mindset grounded in a Computer Science degree from San Diego State and an international perspective from study abroad in Finland. Colleagues value him for steady incident leadership and an ability to translate complex distributed-systems challenges into pragmatic, reliable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (98)
reverse-proxy10
python10
http10
security10
caddy10
webserver10
markdown10
mqtt10
acme10
golang10
home-automation10
mdx10
iot10
http-server10
amazon10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tpaulus/github-argo-proxy
May 2024 - Jul 2026
A simple Cloudflare Worker that accepts Github Webhooks and forwards them to ArgoCD which is protected by Access.
Contributions:47 PRs, 59 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
argocdcloudflare
tpaulus/resque-exporter
Dec 2022 - Mar 2024
Prometheus exporter for Resque metrics.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 PRs in 1 year 4 months
prometheus-exporterresque
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