# Thomas Shum

> Software Engineer at Armorblox.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/thomasshum

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2023 – Present | San Jose, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Armorblox (now part of Cisco)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California
My day-to-day work:
- Golang backend APIs in containers (docker) + architecture to support customer-facing features
- Postgres query optimizations and maintenance

Misc:
- wrote a preprocessor for incoming html emails to filter out detection-evading junk from the message sender for easier processing
- (more to come)

### Entry-Level Software Engineer Intern @ Advantest
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, CA
Improved a log checker script that assists customers in troubleshooting SSD test devices. (Python 2.7, Tkinter)
        ◦ Sped up parsing by 2x by rewriting all regular expressions to not backtrack.	
        ◦ Increased flexibility with what logs can be checked by automatically inferring device configuration from logs. (Previously, device configuration had to be manually specified for each new device)
        ◦ Improved ease of use for customers by adding a GUI.
        ◦ Increased maintainability by separating user interface and log parsing code, and relying on Python features for error handling.


## Education
### Computer Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29