# Tom Randolph

> Making software, mostly

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tomrandolph

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Backflip, AI
Jan 2024 – Present
Working across the stack to help deliver AI models to help people design and make anything they can imagine.

- Profiled and optimized data processing runtime to save $130,000+ per training run
- Built a headless parametric CAD package in Python using OCCT
- Managed training and development of CAD AI models 
- Built experimental features across the entire AI, data, web app, and CAD package stack
- Stood up data processing pipelines using Python and DuckDB

### Founding Software Engineer (Robotics Software/Fullstack) @ Medra
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed and delivered a software platform to help lab scientists run complicated scientific protocols on our robot at the click of a button. Built internal tools and processes to accelerate robotics development.

- Built mission-critical developer tools for visualizing simulations, reading real-time sensor readings and video feeds, and teleoperating field-deployed robots
- Architected services in the cloud and on deployed robots to orchestrate robotics control, logging and telemetry, video streaming, and customer-facing user interface
- Designed the product’s user interface, held UX testing sessions, and led customer training
- Prototyped, tested, and implemented several novel approaches for dextrous robotics control with real-time, closed-loop computer vision control
- Mentored a team of junior engineers through code review, pair programming, & learning materials
- Defined software development lifecycle, including CI, testing, releases, and best practices

### Software Engineer @ Markforged
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
Optimizing manufacturing through software by:
- Making our IoT 3D printers smarter and easier to use
- Building easy-to-use REST APIs to enable customers to automate their 3D printer fleets
- Organizing and visualizing IoT fleet data to accelerate product improvement

### Print Systems Engineer @ Markforged
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Area

### Contract Mechanical Engineer @ Flooid Power Systems
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Holyoke, MA
I am responsible for turning concept sketches into 3D models, and using fluid flow analysis to drive mechanical design decisions.

### Systems Engineer Intern @ Formlabs
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Somerville, MA
I developed calibration hardware, software, and procedures for next-generation SLS technologies. I used Python extensively for data analysis and visualization, as well as for hardware control. I designed and prototyped precision equipment that could handle intense environments. Through the course of the internship, I also became very comfortable troubleshooting, repairing, and calibrating complex electromechnical assemblies.

### Mechanical Design Intern @ General Dynamics
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pittsfield, Massachusetts Area
CAD Training, Modeling of Tactical Hardware, Design of Environmental Test Fixtures

### Mechanical Design Engineer, Embedded Software Engineer @ Cool Springs Nursery
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Worked for an industrial christmas tree nursery on projects requiring electromechanical design solutions 
Billboard Maintenance:
● Analyzed and diagnosed a malfunction in a 3­-face advertising billboard 
● Disassembled, modified, reassembled large mechanical assembly using custom ­fabricated parts 
Winding Machine Design Project:
● Designed electromechanical interface to retrofit onto existing mechanism for winding garland 
● Wrote custom Arduino code to manage I/O sensors, displays, and actuators with microcontroller 
● Designed and assembled modular, robust circuit board for use in industry

### Systems Engineering Intern @ General Dynamics Mission Systems
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pittsfield, Massachusetts Area
Requirements Analysis, Design Review, Hardware Testing, Hardware Inspection

### Apprentice Metalworker @ ­Garden Metalwork    ​
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
●Helped design custom aluminum garden trellises in Creo 
● Learned fundamentals of welding and grinding aluminum and steel 
● Acted as resident lighting and electronics expert for experimental project

### Student Competitor, Mechanical/Software Designer @ General Dynamics Autonomous Vehicle Competition​
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Collaborated with peers to design a model car capable of navigation mazes, obstacle avoidance, 
and carrying loads 
● Was responsible for design and programming 
● Presented car to staff of GD, highlighting design intent and construction 
● Won physical competition and presentation competition 
Freshman Design Project, Engineering 113, UMass          ​Fall 2014 
● Worked on a small team to develop a means of recycling ABS plastic into 3D Printer filament 
● Designed electrical and mechanical systems critical to the operation 
● Presented prototype and design process to peers and mentors

### Student Presentor @ Monument Mountain Regional Highschool
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Designed and organized a lab with engineering materials and equipment for high school students 
● Orally proposed the budget and initiative goals to board of School Center Inc. with a 
small team of teachers


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29