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Thomas Watts

@thomaswatts

Senior Software Engineer at Salas O’Brien building cloud-native microservices, secure APIs, and event-driven telecom systems.

United States

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At Salas O’Brien, I design and implement Spring Boot microservices with REST APIs for enterprise integrations. I also led the migration of monolithic services to container-based microservices using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

I’ve built API Gateway patterns with token-based authentication and rate limiting, and integrated Kafka and RabbitMQ for asynchronous processing of telecom events. I’ve also optimized database schemas and queries across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.

At Parallel Staff, I built and maintained Java backend services for product and inventory APIs, and integrated RabbitMQ for order events. I packaged services with Docker and participated in early Kubernetes deployments.

At Wheelhouse Inc, I developed Python and Java backend components for academic project APIs. I also wrote tests and worked with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker in those projects.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Salas O’Brien

Jul 2021 - Present (5 years 4 months)

Designed and implemented Spring Boot microservices with RESTful APIs, led migration to container-based microservices, and built CI/CD pipelines. Integrated asynchronous processing with Kafka and RabbitMQ, optimized databases, and implemented observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

Spring Boot REST APIs OpenAPI Swagger Docker Kubernetes Helm Gitlab CI GitHub Actions Kafka RabbitMQ PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Prometheus Grafana ELK Terraform Ansible Junit Mockito Pytest SonarQube AWS Azure Linux BASH

Senior Software Engineer

Parallel Staff

May 2017 - Jul 2021 (4 years 2 months)

Built and maintained backend services in Java and Spring Boot, packaged with Docker, and participated in early Kubernetes deployments. Integrated RabbitMQ for message-driven workflows and implemented unit tests with JUnit and Mockito.

Java Spring Boot REST APIs OpenAPI Swagger Docker Kubernetes RabbitMQ Junit Mockito Git Jenkins ELK Grafana Linux BASH

Software Engineer

Wheelhouse Inc

Oct 2014 - May 2017 (2 years 7 months)

Developed backend components in Python (Flask) and Java for academic project APIs, implemented API documentation with OpenAPI/Swagger, and used Docker and Kubernetes for deployments. Wrote unit tests with PyTest and JUnit and integrated RabbitMQ for event simulation.