# Thomas Holder

> SDE at AWS

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/thomasholder

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Engineer and optimize the storage layer of Athena, a fork of the open-source Trino engine, focusing on performance, reliability, and data integrity.

Specialize in working with Hudi, Iceberg, and Delta Lake data stores, ensuring robust and scalable cloud-based analytics.

Contributed to Athena's infrastructure as code, working with AWS CDK to streamline and automate deployments.

### Software Engineering Manager @ Symbiont
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York City, NY
Managed a team of 5, overseeing the touchless build and deployment of the company’s SDK, streamlining development workflows for blockchain-backed applications.

Led the development of Yeoman generators, PyPI packages, npm packages, and VSCode plugins, along with CircleCI orbs, contributing to increased efficiency and developer productivity.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York
Software Engineer

### Software Engineer II @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | London, United Kingdom

### Software Engineer I @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | London, United Kingdom
Software Engineer

### Practice Manager @ The Practice plc
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Brighton Homeless Healthcare


## Education
### Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science
UCL

### BSc (Hons) in Mathematics
University of Bristol


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tdjholder
- Portfolio: http://www.tomholder.com/

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Source: https://flows.cv/thomasholder
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/thomasholder/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-31