Tom Irish

Tom Irish

Senior Manager

Engineering leader building the systems that keep global freight moving.

Seattle, Washington

Tom Irish

Professional Summary


Senior engineering leader with 21 years at Expeditors, running Connected Systems & Infrastructure — 50+ people across five global agile delivery teams responsible for billions of annual B2B, EDI, and government connectivity transactions at 99.5%+ availability. Known for driving measurable delivery improvement through DevSecOps culture and engineering discipline, leading with calm under pressure, and building high-performance organizations through deliberate coaching and succession planning.

Key Achievements


  • Owns the platform behind billions of annual transactions at 99.5%+ availability — spanning B2B integration, EDI, government connectivity, and service provider connectivity
  • Reduced reactive workload (RTR) from 96% to 52% in one year through CI/CD pipeline buildout and test automation, reclaiming 44 points of team capacity for strategic delivery
  • Delivered $465K in cost savings (38.4% reduction) through infrastructure optimization and operational discipline
  • Improved ART Predictability from 79% to 90%; DORA scores of 9.47 and 8.2 across delivery teams
  • Achieved and sustained zero critical and high vulnerabilities across the full portfolio
  • First team in the organization to modernize application identity with Microsoft Entra ID
  • Led incident command through a major cyber attack, achieving full recovery with post-incident volumes exceeding pre-incident baselines
  • 21 years at Expeditors including 10+ years managing engineering managers across global locations

Work Experience


Senior Manager 2025 - Present
Expeditors
  • Lead Connected Systems & Infrastructure — 50+ engineers, TPMs, and project managers across five global agile delivery teams including a Global Service Center in Chennai, managing a leadership layer of team managers, architects, and project managers
  • Drive DevSecOps culture across the portfolio: automated CI/CD pipelines, integrated security gates, blue-green deployments, and test automation that cut reactive workload nearly in half
  • Manage a multi-million dollar cost center budget; oversee hybrid infrastructure of 250+ VMs across on-premises and an emerging Azure footprint supporting all customer and service provider connectivity
  • Maintain zero critical and high vulnerabilities across the full portfolio; first team in the organization to adopt Microsoft Entra ID for application identity
  • Led incident command through a major cyber attack, coordinating technical response, cross-portfolio communications, and stakeholder messaging simultaneously
Manager 2016 - 2025
Expeditors
  • Built and scaled the integration platform now responsible for billions of annual transactions at 99.5%+ availability, spanning B2B, EDI, government connectivity, and service provider integrations
  • Drove SAFe Agile adoption across the organization and improved ART Predictability from 79% to 90%; achieved DORA scores of 9.47 on change failure rate and 8.2 on recovery
  • Delivered $465K in infrastructure cost savings (38.4% reduction) through VM consolidation, capacity rightsizing, and application optimization, finishing 24.9% under budget
  • Grew from managing a single engineering team to leading multiple engineering managers across global locations over a 9-year tenure