Rob Tompkins
Champion | Principal Engineer | VP Open Source | Ex-NASA | Ex-CapitalOne | Ex-AWS | Ex-US Paddling Team | Outdoor Adventure Sports leader
- Role
- Staff Cloud Application Architect at Vertical Relevance
- Location
- Richmond, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rob Tompkins
A seasoned Principal Software Engineer and Cloud Architect with deep expertise in building secure, scalable distributed systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. With over 15 years of experience spanning application development, DevOps, and cloud security, Rob has led transformations in financial services, healthcare, and government, including impactful contributions to NASA and Apache Software Foundation projects. He excels at bridging engineering leadership with hands-on architecture, driving innovation in security, reliability, and high-performance cloud infrastructure.
Experience
Staff Cloud Application Architect
Apr 2024 — Present
Designed and implemented a suite of microservices for the ISO 20022 payment protocols, enhancing transaction efficiency. • Contributed to the development of a real-time payments engine, central to FIS\'s business model, interfacing with TCH and FedNow. • Established best practices that improved software quality and streamlined engineering processes across the team.
Education
University of South Carolina
MS
2007 — 2009
Virginia Tech
BS
2002 — 2007
St. Christopher's School
High School Diploma
1988 — 2002
Skills
- Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
- Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
- Sdlc
- Enterprise Architecture
- Business Analysis
- Javascript
- Jersey Framework
- Computational Mathematics
- C/C++
- Java
- Apache Ivy
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Sql
- Agile Methodologies
- Jboss
- Linux
- Discrete Mathematics
- Mathematical Logic
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Continuous Delivery
- Hudson
- Spring Framework
- Apache Ant
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Software Development
- Python
- Html5
- Ibm Websphere
- Maven
- Oracle Weblogic
- Scrum
- Spring
- Nexus
- Software Project Management
- Integration
- Css3
- Requirements Analysis
- Jenkins
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