# Thomas Giardina

> Software Engineer at Orchid

Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/thomasgiardina

Self-motivated learner adept at working on challenging problems within a team.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Orchid
Jan 2023 – Present | Madison, Wisconsin, United States
We help couples have healthy babies.

### Engineering Manager, Routing @ Datavant
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Supervised 0-to-1 cross-team development of new chart retrieval flow – enabling Life Science's initiative to take advantage of digital retrieval sources.

### Engineering Manager, Vendor Direct @ Datavant
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Expanded the Payer Member Locator initiative by automating our integration with three vendors and adding two new ones – helping the initiative surpass its 2023 year-long revenue forecast in just the first quarter.

### Engineering Manager, Pipelines @ Datavant
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Maintained and scaled the Ingestion and Distribution pipelines – including the ingestion of multiple multi-TB uploads.

### Software Engineer, Pipelines @ Datavant
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- Improved usability and scalability of system – onboarding datasets 10x larger than previous largest dataset. 
- Led migration essential to obtaining FedRAMP certification – migrating ~10TB of data in Snowflake with less than 12 hours of downtime.

### Freelance Software Engineer @ Unknown
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Responsive Policy Project
- Successfully gathered requirements via video meetings and emails.
- Shortened development roadmap – by leveraging stable open-source projects.
- Delivered prototype on time and on budget.
- Simplified developer experience – containerizing both production and development
environments

### Lead Software Engineer @ Zipper
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Greatly improved robustness, extensibility, and testability – by refactoring code to align with
REST, MVC, and normalization standards.
- Delivered an MVP under a hard deadline – by setting appropriate expectations and working
with management to delineate immediate needs from long-term goals.
- Developed a profitable approval algorithm – by analyzing financial data and using an
iterative, design-driven approach.
- Managed relations with multiple third-party APIs, including Plaid, Stripe, Auth0, Twilio,
Slack, and others.
- Remotely managed projects by performing code reviews, emphasizing test-driven
development, and discussing best practices.
- Maintained the full stack from 0 to 3,000 users.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics with a Certificate in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison

### Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College

### Collegiate School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thomas-giardina-473317124

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Last updated: 2026-03-31