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Tom graduated with an M.S.E from the University of Michigan in 2013. His first job was on the server team at Maginatics, cloud based file system company which was acquired by EMC late in 2014. After the acquisition, he joined Dropbox where he was focused on improving the efficiency of Dropbox’s metadata storage, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance. In 2017, Tom joined the founding team at Kasten. Kasten is focussed on kubernetes data management, and was acquired by Veeam in 2020. He is now managing teams spanning multiple projects, all with the aim of simplifying data management in cloud-native environments.