Scott Tamosunas
About Scott Tamosunas
Scott Tamosunas is a Software Architect currently working at Bluecore in Manhattan, New York. He has extensive experience in software development and architecture, having previously held positions at Salesforce, Brightcove, and One Medical, among others.
Current Role at Bluecore
Scott Tamosunas serves as a Software Architect at Bluecore since 2022, based in Manhattan, New York. In this role, he engages in high-level decision-making, including team structure, OKRs, planning, budgeting, and technology selection. His responsibilities include mentoring teams and junior staff members on software engineering best practices and career development.
Previous Experience at Salesforce
Scott Tamosunas worked as a Software Architect at Salesforce from 2018 to 2022 in the Portland, Oregon Area. During his tenure, he contributed to the migration of Bluecore's systems to Go with a microservice architecture, which enhanced scalability and performance.
Contributions to Bluecore
At Bluecore, Scott led the modernization of the event-ingestion pipeline, which processes over 5 billion events daily. This initiative resulted in a 50% reduction in operational costs by addressing inefficiencies in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He also implemented a schema registry to validate all ingested data, improving data correctness and reducing processing inefficiencies by approximately 40%.
Educational Background
Scott Tamosunas studied at Wentworth Institute of Technology, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from 1995 to 1997. He also completed a Certificate in Technology Leadership from Cornell University in 2021, which he pursued for four months. Additionally, he participated in a Wine Studies Program at Boston University, achieving a Certificate from 2013 to 2014.
Career Timeline and Previous Roles
Scott has held various positions throughout his career. He worked as an Agile Web Developer using Ruby on Rails at One Medical from 2006 to 2008 and at Pivotal Labs from 2008 to 2009. He served as a Senior Software Engineer at Zendesk for seven months in 2009 and as a Principal Software Engineer at EnerNOC from 2004 to 2005. He also held roles at Brightcove as a Software Architect and Engineering Manager from 2010 to 2013 and as a Lead Member of Technical Staff at Desk.com from 2014 to 2016.