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Thomas Dean

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VP of Engineering at Ivory Mobility | ex-Uber

Works at
Ivory Mobility
Location
Pittsburgh, PA · ET (UTC-5)
Experience
14+ years experience
Education
Booth School of Business
Languages
English
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Ivory Mobility, focused on cloud infrastructure. Grew the infrastructure team from 4 to 19 engineers. Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 490ms to 164ms. Before that: Uber and Twilio. Most at home with Go and Linux.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Working sessions on Terraform
  • Second opinions on incident response decisions
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Fastest replies in the morning

Skills
AWSGoKubernetesTerraformPrometheusLinuxincident response

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Ivory Mobility · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 421ms to 81ms.
    • Led the migration of 30 services to incident response.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 26% in two quarters.
  2. Site Reliability Engineer
    Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
    Uber · 2 yr · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Shipped 15 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
    • Wrote the Terraform service that now handles 71 million requests a day.
  3. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
    Twilio · 2 yr 1 mo · Contract · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 535ms to 84ms.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2015 - Nov 2018
    Wells Fargo · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Moved 68% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 742ms to 127ms.
  5. Site Reliability Engineer
    Feb 2013 - Dec 2015
    Datadog · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 475ms to 107ms.
    • Moved 60% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Write-up: cloud infrastructure in practice
2025

A long-form guide to cloud infrastructure for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from infrastructure
2022

What went wrong and what worked while scaling cloud infrastructure.

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Education

  1. Booth School of Business
    MBA, Business Administration
    2000 - 2002
  2. University of Michigan
    BSE, Electronics and Communication
    1996 - 2000

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