Kevin James Tomescu
software engineer · Dublin, Ireland
I’m a backend engineer at Microsoft on the ingestion pipeline for Azure Log Analytics. Outside work I co-run GowTom Technologies, where we ship ChooseLocal and Algomancer.
2025-07 → now
Backend development for Azure Log Analytics, on the ingestion pipeline. My first year, as an event stream: large, ambiguous, cross-team work, owned end to end.
Also an Early-in-Career interviewer, a charity fundraiser, and sponsor of a university award for final-year computing students.
Designed and shipped a multi-tenant shared AKS platform from scratch — IaC deployment, namespace-scoped RBAC, security hardening, observability. It now serves multiple internal services.
Built production cloud infrastructure from zero in Bicep with automated pipelines, including a region-agnostic onboarding pattern now reused across teams. Replaced a manual, multi-day VM reprovisioning process with an automated IaC system.
Led my team’s adoption of AI-assisted development through hands-on study groups, co-led an internal AI workshop, and set up agentic tooling patterns (AGENTS.md, MCP) that other teams have since picked up.
Drove cross-team migrations off a deprecated legacy platform, taking several pipelines to 100% production traffic. Completed an AI-driven .NET Framework → .NET 10 migration at a 100% test pass rate, and wrote it up as a guide shared with hundreds of engineers.
Investigated and resolved a high-severity incident across 11 regions, and wrote the root-cause analysis.
Founded with Niamh Gowran as GowTom Technologies.
chooselocal.ie
Websites for Irish local businesses — built for them or by them. Owners can edit their site themselves and put it on their own web address.
Visit ChooseLocal →algomancer.net
Interview preparation as a multiplayer auto-battler: solve real interview problems to summon an army.
Plus system-design whiteboards and voice mock interviews.
Play Algomancer →
| 2023 & 2024 | Software Engineer Intern, Microsoft — twice Backend on the Azure AI Operations Health platform. Released SDKs to production on the latest auth standards, built a load-balancing feature still in production, led reliability and automation work. |
| 2022 | Software Engineer Intern, QAD A full-stack, Jira-integrated web app: Spring Boot, React, MariaDB and an Angular frontend. |
| 2022–23 | Full Stack Developer, Enactus DCU Internal tools for volunteering timesheets and treasury management. |
| 2022–23 | Programming Laboratory Tutor, Dublin City University |
BSc Computer Science, Dublin City University, 2021–2025
First Class Honours · 88% average · Dean’s Honours List
2nd
of 120 in my year
97%
Best Overall Project, final year. A cloud-native proactive monitoring platform that uses synthetic testing to catch regressions before users do — Azure, .NET, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, full CI/CD.
99%
Best Overall Project, third year. A distributed system collecting metrics from 450 machines, with real-time observability and unsupervised ML for anomaly detection.
On the GowTom engineering blog: what mutation testing is and how it shows whether your tests would catch a real bug.
Read itWith Niamh Gowran: advice from former big-tech interns that actually works.
Read itWith Niamh Gowran: practical advice for getting internships while in college.
Read itKey takeaways from Sumeet Moghe's training on async-first ways of working.
Read itComplexity needs to earn its place.
If you’re working on cloud-native backends, infrastructure as code or AI-assisted engineering, I’d like to hear about it.
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