Platform Engineering · Developer Infrastructure · CI/CD

Tom Gigler

Platform Engineering Manager

GitHub

Professional Summary

Platform engineering leader with more than two decades of experience building and improving developer infrastructure, build and release systems, source-control workflows, CI/CD platforms, and internal engineering tools. Progressed from hands-on build engineering through technical leadership into engineering management while remaining closely involved in the design and operation of the systems used by development teams.

Experience

[Company Name]

Platform Engineering Manager

[Year]–Present

  • Lead a platform engineering team responsible for developer infrastructure and engineering productivity across build, CI/CD, artifact management, and source control.
  • Support engineering workflows built around Git, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, artifact management, package management, and internal developer tooling.
  • Emphasize durable ownership within the team so engineers can lead systems, onboard others, and make decisions without unnecessary management bottlenecks.

[Company Name]

Build Engineer → Senior Build Engineer → Lead Build Engineer

[Year]–[Year]

  • Built and maintained release and build systems for major software products across Windows and Unix-like environments.
  • Designed dependency and build tooling that simplified large, interdependent codebases and materially reduced build time.
  • Worked across development, QA, release engineering, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, repeatability, and developer experience.

Selected Technical Work

GiggleCheckBox

Reusable checklist system built around templates, runs, locations, assets, dependencies, tags, attachments, and auditable checklist activity.

GiggleMe

Long-running Discord automation project with scheduled content, templates, database-backed workflows, web tooling, and service-based deployment.

GiggleMod

Discord moderation tooling focused on maintainability, service deployment, and modern command workflows.

Core Technologies

Git · GitHub · GitHub Enterprise · Jenkins · GitHub Actions · Artifactory · Maven · NuGet · Python · PowerShell · MySQL · Linux · Windows · CI/CD · Build Engineering · Developer Tooling · Platform Engineering

Education

[California State University campus]

M.S., Computer Science

[Year]

[California State University campus]

B.S., Computer Science, with honors

Outstanding Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

[Year]