Thomas Ziebarth
Software Developer
Projects
Resume
Technical product leader with 8 years of hands-on engineering experience and 2 in product management. I build developer-facing platforms that turn complex data and AI capabilities into tools engineers actually use.
Senior Product Manager
Oct 2024 — Jan 2026- Owned product vision, roadmap, planning and execution for the Simulation Data Platform, serving 200+ engineering, program and leadership users.
- Collaborated with Foundation Model, Autonomy and QA teams to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete simulation data pipelines, dataset lifecycle management tools, and performance metrics.
- Shipped a LLM-powered captioning and natural language querying system, scoping requirements across multiple teams and driving engineering execution from concept to production.
Senior System Integration Engineer
Jul 2023 — Oct 2024- Architected a unified data platform combining logs, analytics, and simulations into a single reporting system (Python, PySpark, SQL).
- Designed automation to cluster large simulation datasets by sensor data, scenario attributes and metrics for tracking trends and flagging outliers.
- Led a cross-functional initiative to compute and track departmental KPIs, reducing computation time from hours to seconds.
- Deployed dashboards and visualization tools to monitor key autonomy performance signals and detect anomalies.
Staff System Integration Engineer
Oct 2019 — Jul 2023- Developed an end-to-end performance monitoring system for the infotainment stack: vehicle-side logging, fleet data aggregation, metric definition, visualization, reporting and regression detection (C++, Python, SQL, Spark, Splunk).
- Collaborated with data, firmware, and service teams to implement monitoring systems and define metrics.
- Led infotainment integration for two major vehicle launches (Palladium Model S/X and Highland Model 3/Y).
Staff Product Engineer
Mar 2016 — Oct 2019- Scoped, designed and delivered a vehicle diagnostic suite (Python and JavaScript) used daily by 600+ internal customers.
- Analyzed large-scale vehicle logs and telemetry to identify systemic issues, predict failures, and prioritize software improvements.
Education
BS in Electrical Engineering with Distinction (top quintile), minor in Business
University of Victoria, BC, Canada — 2015
Skills
- Hands-on experience with Gen-AI products: Claude Code, Codex, etc.
- Data systems architecture, observability & telemetry intelligence
- Cross-functional: system integration, product launch, agile & scrum processes
- Product: vision, requirements discovery, roadmap, design reviews, team resource management