# Tom Papke

> Software Engineer

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/tompapke

I'm a Software Engineer with a passion for databases, algorithms and performance engineering. Through my diverse academic, professional, and personal experiences, I have learnt how to develop efficient solutions to challenging engineering problems in a collaborative setting.
I have always been interested in science and technology and love learning new subjects, even if they're outside my domain of expertise.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Jane Street
Jan 2024 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom

### Software Engineer Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom
- Designed and implemented a metadata mechanism for the caching infrastructure of AtlasDB, a transactional layer on top of key-value stores
- Improved observability and debuggability of multiple AtlasDB components

### Software Engineer Intern @ Snowflake
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Berlin, Germany
- Containerized all major product components using Docker and Bazel
- Built a Kubernetes-based System Under Test for benchmarking and regression testing (reached within 5% of production HTAP performance)
- Implemented provisioning of Kubernetes pods instead of cloud provider VMs

### Research Assistant @ Oracle
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Zurich, Switzerland
- Utilized GraalVM's native image tool and Profile-Guided Optimizations to achieve performance uplifts for JavaScript execution in the Oracle Database Multilingual Engine (MLE)
- Created a dedicated benchmarking driver to compare different builds and configurations
- Authored comprehensive reports about the experimental evaluation

### Working Student - Digital Federation Architecture @ Siemens
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Metropolregion München
- Developed and maintained a distributed system consisting of multiple microservices to
demonstrate and evaluate different best practices and technologies for event-driven archi-
tectures in an IoT environment
- Assessed the dapr framework and EventStoreDB as part of the Siemens mentoring program
student challenges

### Student Tutor @ Technische Universität München
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Metropolregion München
- Taught a group of approximately 20 students about the fundamentals of databases in
weekly online tutoring sessions


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Software Engineering
Technical University of Munich

### Master of Science - MS in Software Engineering
University of Augsburg

### Master of Science - MS in Software Engineering
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Information Systems
Technical University of Munich

### Abitur
Schmuttertal Gymnasium Diedorf


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tom-papke-3523bb19a

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Last updated: 2026-04-05