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Tom Howe

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Director of Field Engineering at Hydrolix
📍 Penn Valley, California, United States

Tom is a Director of Field Engineering at Hydrolix with 20 years of software experience, formerly leading teams at Disney Streaming. He has deep expertise in Scala, Python, and Golang, focusing on media services and streaming data. He holds both a BA and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and is described as being extremely creative.

Outside of his tech career, Tom is a dedicated musician who plays trombone in the Chicago-based performance ensemble Mucca Pazza. He is also a fan of Major League Baseball.

Unique fact: The first official gig for his band, Mucca Pazza, was at his own wedding.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Director of Field Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Penn Valley, California, United States
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Streaming Data Analytics
He joined Hydrolix, a streaming data lake company, to help build powerful new analytic and intelligence tools.
Data Intelligence
He is actively hiring roles to build a new intelligence layer at Hydrolix, with a focus on semantic knowledge and ontology.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Director of Field Engineering
Hydrolix
10-2022 - 8-2025
Director of Software Engineering
Disney Streaming
4-2022 - 10-2022
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Disney Streaming
6-2021 - 4-2022
Software Engineering Manager
Disney Streaming
12-2013 - 3-2017
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Management
Dell
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Education
2001 - 2007
MS
University of Chicago
1996 - 2000
BA
University of Chicago
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