Thomas M. Boccuto

Founder

peepnest

• Built multi-tier architecture with S3/CloudFront frontend and ECS/Fargate backend.
• Deployed containerized Flask application with health checks and auto-scaling.
• Established network security with granular security groups and SSL/TLS enforcement.
• Reduced infrastructure costs by 25% through health check optimizations.
• Enhanced geospatial retrieval in MySQL using Point datatype with column indexing.
• Implemented secure WebSocket chat with Flask-SocketIO using room-based messaging, and real-time typing indicators.
• Integrated Round Robin ALB with HTTP origins to separate ECS services by domain over shared ALB.
• Architected multi-AZ high availability infrastructure with modular Terraform code organized by service components.
• Built React/Flask microservices architecture with rolling blue/green deployment.
• Created multi-service CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions with path-based container builds.
• Optimized media delivery using CloudFront CDN.
• Implemented verbose logging and queryable monitoring system with CloudWatch.

DevOps Engineer

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA | April 2023 – Present

• Migrated Python3 Azure Functions to EC2 Elastic Beanstalk
• Led migration of faculty voting application to Python3 microservices with AWS DynamoDB.
• Created 7TB on-premises data lake of Reddit content for research partioned and AWS Athena ready.
• Developed purchasing acquisition system with SSO login and with a normalized document management on Aws Elastic Beanstalk.
• Built research tool with pagination for large-scale media asset management on Prem.
• Created Relational Database Model and wrote backend for Employee Management System for Internal Onboarding with server and client side end to end tests.
• Lead the Architecture and Development of Serverless Transcription Service leveraging AWS Microservice Event Driven Architecture pattern Managed by Terraform.

Data Science/Data Engineer

Save Philly By Data

Philadelphia, PA | Jan 2023 – April 2023

• Developed crime analysis web application with real-time data processing.
• Engineered interactive crime mapping system with 33 different categories.
• Built dynamic visualization system with multiple view options.
• Created automated data pipeline for real-time crime data updates.

Software Engineer Contract

SV Sports

Philadelphia, PA | January 2023 - April 2023

• Created Factory pattern for Django application with JWT authentication.
• Integrated MSSQL Server with Django application.
• Staged NPM frontend environment for Angular application.

Digital Marketing and Financial Automation

Ursinus College - Digital Spark

Philadelphia, PA | June 2022 – August 2022

• Developed end-to-end solution for financial record aggregation.
• Implemented data visualization with linear regression for financial forecasting.
• Created marketing materials that achieved 20k views.

Research Fellow

Ursinus College - Mathematics REU

Collegeville, PA | Summer 2021

• Conducted NSF-funded research on video motion amplification techniques.
• Extended Eulerian magnification algorithms to work with 3D depth camera data<./li>
• Developed novel pipeline using implicit surface representation.