Tom Barrasso
TPM Lead • Platform Strategy • Distributed Systems
10+ years driving ambiguous technical programs, from billion-user infrastructure to flip-phone apps and on-device AI. Owning perpetual platform programs with rolling multi-year roadmaps; securing buy-in across engineering and business leadership through automation-first execution.
Work Experience
Staff Technical Program Manager
Aug 2026 - Present
- Own a portfolio of competitive infrastructure programs spanning architectural improvements to the query engine, queryable encryption, and query parallelization
Head of Developer Relations
Sept 2024 - Dec 2025
- Created Cloud Phone for Developers site and published 5 open-source apps & libraries
- Drove platform adoption and grew developer community via social media management, podcasts, video, guest articles, and global in-person talks
- Secured partnerships with top South Asian telecom & media firms to launch 6 enterprise apps
Staff Technical Program Manager
Feb 2022 - Sept 2024
- Scaled Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI), a multi-year platform program, across 150+ search, ranking, recommendation, and ML use cases in <1 year, defining evaluation criteria, rollout gates, and reproducibility standards across federated orgs; influenced senior ICs/VPs to mitigate €14B+ in regulatory risk
- Partnered with Data Science & Engineering to architect a scalable metrics & evaluation framework, instrumenting time-in-motion analysis to quantify program health, establish predictable delivery, and drive data-driven prioritization across 30+ federated engineering orgs
- Drove company-wide data governance strategy spanning AI training data and inference, ensuring compliance with international privacy regulations including GDPR, DMA, DSA, CCPA, and ePD
- Automated annual compliance audits via static-analysis tooling, reducing operational costs 75% YoY
Technical Program Manager II
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
- Drove non-functional programs — service resilience, quality, observability — reducing user-facing SEV1 by 60%; led distributed data replication, multi-region failover, and monitoring/alerting/tracing, establishing repeatable health-evaluation criteria across critical services
- Unblocked Amazon Pharmacy launch by orchestrating security & compliance certification across 54 services, 25 teams, and 1 vendor in one quarter; built shared audit-evidence pipeline
- Drove development of Supply Chain Standards auditing tool for global compliance; designed evaluation rubric and review workflow scaling the program across suppliers
Software Development Engineer II
Dec 2018 - Apr 2020
- Refactored insurance claim adjudication service for high availability and fault tolerance (five nines: 99.999%), establishing proactive system health monitoring and SLO-based evaluation
- Architected sales tax calculation and reporting engine, processing 10M+ txn/month
UX Engineer
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
- Led front-end engineering team launching redesigned John Hancock Investments website
- Developed interactive prototypes and component libraries for Marriott, Manulife, and Merck
Research Associate
Finch Therapeutics
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Boston, MA
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
- Standardized GC-MS methodology for short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) analysis, improving analytical consistency and throughput by shortening run times more than 80%
Research Assistant
UMass Biogeochemistry
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Amherst, MA
Sept 2014 - May 2016
- Conducted undergraduate thesis research linking fecal biomarkers to paleoclimate patterns and human habitation, presented at 2015 GSA Conference
Software Engineer
July 2012 - July 2013
- Independently developed the first version of the blueprint reader PlanGrid for Android tablets
CSAIL Teaching Fellow
Sept 2011 - June 2012
- Lectured & graded for CS50 & CS75: Introduction to Computer Science and Web Development
Software Intern
May 2010 - Aug 2011
- Developed the TextMyFood prototype, a service for restaurants to receive orders via SMS
Projects
Founder, PodLP
March 2020 - Present
Built and monetized PodLP, a podcast app for flip phones surpassing 10M+ installs across 175+ countries generating $100K+ lifetime revenue
Android Developer
Sept 2010 - Oct 2015
Developed and published 12+ Android applications including StatusBar+, ChargeBar, and Noyze, totaling 2M+ installs resulting in 2 successful acquisitions