Resume of Thomas Strömberg

25 years of experience in systems automation, open source, and building user-focused engineering teams

Chainguard

Security Mastermind

2022-present

Founded security & compliance team; helping the company navigate growth from seed stage to $1 billion valuation without being pwned.

Equinix Metal

Senior Engineering Manager, Provisioning Team

2021

Oversaw DevOps team responsible for our core customer product: machine provisioning
Introduced SRE practices: reduced paging incidents by 6.5X, increased on-call rotation size by 3.5X
Defined a new triage process that reduced open-source interaction latency from 44d to 4.8d
Collaborated with other teams to adopt new deployment techniques to reduce install latency by 3X
Deprecated projects that no longer fit our strategy & personally cleaned up large Go codebase

Google

Engineering Manager, Container DevEx

2019 to 2021

Managed 10-person team responsible for open-source Kubernetes developer tools
Consulted and collaborated with teams throughout Google to build a cohesive developer experience
Built fun, productive and robust remote work culture to help team thrive
Actively coached engineers, ran hackathons, built roadmaps, reviewed performance and created a safe environment

Senior Software Engineer, Container DevEx

2018 to 2019

Led and launched minikube v1.0: the most popular local Kubernetes environment
Created Triage Party project to promote active listening within open-source communities
Participated in upstream Kubernetes development via SIG Cluster Lifecycle
Presented at KubeCon Seattle 2018, KubeCon Shanghai 2019 and KubeCon San Diego 2019

Tech Lead/Manager, Security

2016 to 2018

Managed team responsible for revolutionizing ACL management at Google
Built and improved self-service web applications for ACL provisioning
Fostered SRE culture within security by hosting training, writing playbooks, post-mortems, and SLOs

Senior Systems Engineer, SRE

2006 to 2014

Tech lead for effort to decentralize cluster automation: accelerating turn-up by 10X and saving $XX million USD a year
Created production simulation environment to continuously ensure Google's cold start ability
Worked with teams to identify and eliminate cyclical dependencies in production infrastructure
On-call for base compute infrastructure (authentication, mdb, installers, etc.)

Verizon (Alltel)

Operating Systems Programmer

2005 to 2006

Created monitoring platform for systems health, security and configuration across 1000+ nodes
Introduced modern engineering practices (revision control, collaborative docs) to highly regulated IT department
Member of on-call team for the UNIX fleet (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX)

Indiana University, School of Chemistry

UNIX Coordinator

2003 to 2005

Tech lead for school's initiative to adopt High Performance Computing
Designed and maintained Linux clusters, built job control environments (SGE, Condor)
Created high-throughput workflow engine for protein analysis, self-service tools for batch scheduling and resource reservation
Lead security contact and incident responder

Bell & Howell

Senior UNIX Administrator

2001 to 2003

Managed fault-tolerant clusters for large engineering firm
Completed multi-year migration of mission critical services from HP-UX to Solaris & Linux
Replaced proprietary tools with open source equivalents when appropriate: lowering costs and extending capabilities

Internet Commerce Corporation (RTCI)

Senior Systems Administrator

1998 to 2001

Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan)

UNIX Administrator

1997 to 1998

Thomas Strömberg	thomas@stromberg.org
Chapel Hill, NC, USA	+1 678 608 0428

Thomas Strömberg