Chris Thomas
Technical Board Advisor at Thomas Advisory
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChris Thomas is a Technical Board Advisor and seasoned DevOps/Software engineer with over a decade of experience designing policies, pipelines, and automation that take products from source control to production across embedded firmware and cloud microservices. He advises CTOs and founders on pragmatic CI/CD, observability, and team composition, helping organizations like Atlassian, Octopus Deploy, and FinTech firms modernize delivery while cutting costs and improving uptime. A former USAF RF technician who led multi-branch units under deployment, he brings disciplined leadership and a talent for quickly stepping into roles beyond his rank to drive results. Chris combines hands-on engineering—building custom build chains, IaC, and deployment automation—with a culture-first approach that increases developer ownership and sustainable experimentation. Notably, he has repeatedly turned manual, fragile processes into reliable, automated workflows, improving database and application performance while halving operational costs. Based in North Carolina, he balances technical depth with advisory impact as he scales teams and tooling for long-term reliability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Greene Central High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Science at University of Maryland Global CampusCoursework Towards Computer Science Computer Science, Coursework Towards Computer Science Computer Science at Pitt Community CollegeLenoir Community College
English
Stackoverflow
542reputation
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28answers
23questions
Github Skills (88)
nuget10
docker10
octopus10
octopus-deploy10
dotnet9
linux9
sdk9
windows9
devops9
nodejs9
js8
azure8
javascript8
azure-functions8
bootstrap8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
xtreampb/Library
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
A repository of step templates and other community-contributed extensions to Octopus Deploy
Contributions:10 PRs, 44 pushes, 32 branches in 4 months
octopus-deploydeploymentansibleextensionsoctopus
xtreampb/nbCcTalkCoinAcceptor
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
This project contains usage instructions and code examples (C#) for communication with coin acceptor using the ccTalk protocol
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years
dotnetacceptorinstructionscommunicationcsharp
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