# Thom van Os > Staff Software Engineer at StrongDM Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/thom Highly experienced (20+ yrs) software engineer, innovator and entrepreneur. Expert at programming C, C++, assembly, UNIX/Linux and networking. Self-starter, quick learner and excellent problem solver. Award winning software developer. Team player and able to work independently. Experienced electronic engineer. Creator of mission critical software systems, electronic devices, toys and games. Has delivered software on many operating systems, including UNIX, Linux, Windows, MacOs, iOS and Android. Responsible for groundbreaking interactive multimedia productions, revolutionary LED lighting systems and breakthroughs in network optimization. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ StrongDM Jan 2025 – Present ### Staff Software Engineer @ Sysdig Jan 2017 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, CA - Responsible for many features and improvements in the Sysdig agent for collecting metrics, logs, events and metadata. -Scaled agent Prometheus metrics ingestion from 30K to ~1M -Winner of Sysdig's first hackathon (2020) ### Senior Software Engineer @ Riverbed Technology Jan 2006 – Jan 2016 - Created and delivered POCs and new features in complex systems involving network optimization, encryption, deduplication and compression. - Reverse engineered, drove, designed and implemented a man-in-the-middle decryption/encryption framework to enable WAN optimization for encrypted MAPI (MS Outlook-Exchange) traffic, a world first. - Greatly improved stability and effectiveness of MAPI optimization (one of the main business drivers for Riverbed’s flagship Steelhead products). - Responsible for maintenance and improvements of Riverbed's core data deduplication engine. ### President/Inventor/Engineer @ Van Os Design, Inc. Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 | San Francisco Founded new corporation for the development of new innovative products and for providing design and engineering consulting services. Oversaw day to day operations, managed employees and contractors, invented new products, determined feasibility and marketability, took selected concepts from idea to finished product, performed research, specified design parameters, designed electronics, wrote software, created prototypes. ### Inventor/Engineer @ Van Os Consulting Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 | San Francisco Created new games. Created Digital Video cataloging software. Designed & built electronics for a digital altimeter, an IR remote analyzer and a camera controller. Wrote drivers for a digital PC-oscilloscope. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Synopsys Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 | Sunnyvale, CA Developed, maintained and integrated enterprise-scale licensing software. Optimized and debugged existing code. Responsible for both client and server side software. Created POSIX multi-threaded versions. Taught and assisted other departments in the use of API's. ### Software Consultant @ CCI- Computer Consultants International, Inc. Jan 1996 – Jan 1999 Was the single worldwide support engineer and consultant for Synon/Open, the UNIX side runtime environment for applications generated by the industry standard AS/400 based 4GL, Synon 2E. Consulted and created custom patches and software updates for American Software Inc., Transition Systems Inc. and Synon Inc. Administered Linux, AIX, and HP-UX systems and networks. ### Software Engineer @ Synon Jan 1996 – Jan 1997 | San Rafael, CA Was the principal software engineer in charge of the Synon/Open runtime environment. Optimized, debugged and maintained all source-code and handled all Synon/Open trouble tickets. Administered some UNIX systems and consulted on UNIX system issues. Developed tools for software development and configuration management. ### Analyst/Programmer/Consultant @ DEC/Digital Equipment Corporation Jan 1994 – Jan 1996 | Apeldoorn Area, Netherlands Consulted at Digital Equipment Corporation/Banking, in an automation project for all Dutch post-offices. Designed and created software for critical subsystems, including transaction registration and transmission. Consulted on and maintained development environment for the software engineering group. Updated and maintained the department's programming and documentation standards. Reviewed and analyzed functional specifications, wrote technical designs. Consulted on and administered UNIX development systems. Gave presentations and taught about tools and systems. ### Founder/Consultant/Software Engineer @ Unix Support Nederland BV Jan 1991 – Jan 1996 | Den Haag, The Netherlands Co-founded company. Consulted many companies on UNIX issues. Was the principal software engineer for the back-end software in a real-time traffic data gathering and distribution system. Project received the Computable IT award of excellence in 1993. Developed fax software and software development tools. Administered internal and external UNIX systems, networks and security. ### Software Engineer/Designer @ Ars Media Jan 1993 – Jan 1994 | Den Haag, The Netherlands Developed interactive multimedia software on CD-I. Solely responsible for all the software in many groundbreaking projects. Was involved with all development stages, from interviewing clients to delivering and installing the finished product on-site and maintenance and support. Lead and mentored junior developers and oversaw all software development. Worked with outside graphic artists and producers. Projects included a networked interactive sales training for car maker Citroen, an internal medicine training course generator for the university of Nijmegen, a real-time 3D graphics library and a traffic map display system for Dutch national television. Created and presented prototypes to clients. ### Programmer @ Commodore Jan 1991 – Jan 1991 Developed CAD package. Maintained and debugged existing code and created new functionality. Handled occasional support calls. ## Education ### B.Sc. in Computer Science Haagse Hogeschool Den Haag ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tvanos --- Source: https://flows.cv/thom JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/thom/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01