Tom Hemmes

Curriculum Vitae

Tom Hemmes
Tom Hemmes

πŸš€ Experience

Lightyear (2022 - 2023)

About

Lightyear builds the worlds first solar electric vehicle (SEV) in order to provide clean mobility for everyone, everywhere.

Role

At Lightyear I work as a software engineer on the cloud platform.

Contributions

  • Responsible for the telemetry service, providing vehicle data to other applications
  • Responsible for the mobile app backend (originally built by an external party)
  • Contributed to the identity service, allowing customers to login on all Lightyear platforms and pair their mobile app with the vehicle
  • Interviewing engineers and growing the team

Technologies

typetechnologies
backendRust (Rocket), Typescript, NodeJS (Express)
databasesPostgres (RDS, Aurora), DynamoDB, InfluxDB
automationCircleCI, Terraform
cloudAWS (Lambda, RDS, Aurora, S3, DynamoDB, Cognito, Gateway), Confluent Kafka
monitoringGrafana, Cloudwatch Metrics, Cloudwatch Alarm

Walker & Dunlop (2022)

About

In February 2022 GeoPhy was acquired by Walker&Dunlop. Walker&Dunlop provides financing solutions and investment sales to owners of multifamily and commercial real estate.

Role

After the acquisition I took on the role of Tech Lead for our team. Enabling the team to build and grow.

GeoPhy (2018 - 2022)

About

GeoPhy provides CRE professionals with access to data and insights so they can find, evaluate, and close more deals in less time with greater confidence. GeoPhy is making the world of commercial real estate more transparent, efficient, and faster.

  • founded by Teun van den Dries and Sander Mulders.
  • funded by Index Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Inkef Capital.
  • acquired by Walker&Dunlop on 2022-02-07 (finance.yahoo.com)

Role

I started at GeoPhy as a data engineer in 2018, then I moved to backend engineering. In 2021 my role expanded to senior software engineer including more responsibilities in architecture, organisation and quality.

Contributions

At GeoPhy I am responsible for


  • Data modelling and API design
  • Developing and maintaining a growing number of APIs that are used in multiple products
  • Architectural design proposals and implementation
  • Release engineering practices, CICD, Chart registry, etc
  • Interviewing engineers

Technologies

typetechnologies
backendPython (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy), Scala (AkkaHTTP)
databasesPostgres (RDS, Aurora), DynamoDB
automationGitlab CICD, Airflow
clusterKubernetes, Helm, ACK, Crossplane, Istio
cloudAWS (Lambda, RDS, Aurora, S3, DynamoDB, Cognito, Gateway)
monitoringGrafana, Kibana, Jaeger, Sentry

πŸ“š Education

TNO graduation (2017 - 2018)

Graduation project at the department of Intelligent Imaging. My thesis "Classification of large scale outdoor point clouds using convolutional neural networks" is graded with an 8.

repository.tudelft.nl

Masters Geomatics, TU Delft (2014 - 2018)

  • 6 month internship at GeoPhy as GIS engineer
  • 1 year fulltime board position at student association Stylos
  • Cofounded GEOS student association for Geomatics

Bachelor Architecture, TU Delft (2011 - 2014)

  • 1 year parttime position at Student Council