Thor Sigurjonsson has extensive work experience in various roles and positions. Thor'smost recent role is as a Principal Engineer at StreamNative, a startup that delivers cloud-native data streaming technology. In this role, they support Streamnative Cloud engineering efforts, Apache Pulsar itself, and assists customers in adopting Pulsar and architecting software and data solutions.
Prior to working at StreamNative, Thor founded Eldwerks LLC in 2008, where they provided software architecture and information technology consulting services, specializing in areas such as containerization, microservices, stream-processing, data engineering, and cloud technologies.
From 2018 to 2022, Thor worked at Overstock.com as a Principal Data Engineer, Lead Data Architect, and Data Product Team Lead. Thor contributed to the development of real-time and offline integrated machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions across various product teams, including personalization, pricing, ranking, search, recommender systems, marketing, CRM, advertising technologies, and sourcing.
Before joining Overstock.com, Thor worked as a Principal Software Architect at Vivint Smart Home from 2017 to 2018. Thor led and managed a team within the company, which offers smart home solutions, including home security, energy management, and home automation.
From 2015 to 2017, Thor was a Principal Software Architect at CloudPassage, a leading security platform for public and private cloud workloads. Thor played a key role in protecting workloads, micro-segmentation, compromise detection, compliance, and DevSecOps.
From 2013 to 2015, Thor served as the Chief Services Architect for Data Protection Cloud at EMC Core Technologies Division, which is now part of Dell EMC. Thor continued their work on the same team and projects at the Mozy office in Utah, focusing on Data Protection Cloud and EMC Cloud.
Prior to that, Thor worked at VMware from 2011 to 2012 as a Senior Member of Technical Staff. Thor was the lead developer and architect on a cloud APIs and services project, involving REST APIs design and the engineering of an API engine and web stack with distributed backend services.
Thor has also held positions at Fjarnet, Voicetal LLC, and ContagiousNET, where they gained experience in areas such as network infrastructure, server administration, containerization, and web development.
Overall, Thor Sigurjonsson's work experience showcases their expertise in software architecture, data engineering, cloud technologies, and machine learning across various industries.
Thor Sigurjonsson has pursued education in the field of Computer Science at Brigham Young University but the specific start and end years are not available. In addition to their education, Thor Sigurjonsson has obtained a certification as a Certified Developer on Apache Cassandra from DataStax | O'Reilly Media in September 2015.
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