Summary
Whelan Workmaster is a Senior Software Engineer in Atlanta with a decade of experience building data platforms, backend services, and reliable CI/CD pipelines for startups and enterprise teams. As a founding member of Formation Bio’s data platform, he led data governance and user-access automation, turning vendor prototypes into a unit-tested, YAML-configured in-house tool and integrating coverage reporting into centralized observability. He has strong full-stack and cloud-native chops across Python, Java, Go, Terraform, and Azure/AWS, having delivered serverless data exchanges, high-throughput ingestion systems, and resilient microservices at organizations like ThoughtWorks and The Home Depot. Whelan champions testing and automation—co-founding a company Testing Guild and introducing repeatable, randomized journey tests and centralized code quality dashboards. He blends hands-on implementation with cross-team coordination (SREs, vendors, and product) to move solutions from proof-of-concept to production stability. Outside core delivery, he brings a practical focus on reducing manual toil through business-driven configuration and audited workflows.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Georgia State University
English