Forrest Thomas is a Staff SRE in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience designing and operating scalable CI/CD and deployment platforms for high-traffic web properties and cloud-native services. He has led cross-team re-architecture efforts at companies like Paxos and Splunk, driving Terraform and GitOps adoption and delivering measurable pipeline velocity improvements and observability for build/test/deploy workflows. At Capital One he combined engineering and management to build the internal deployment and front-end frameworks that power millions of monthly page views, and he continues to translate broad platform goals into attainable multi-year roadmaps. Known for asking “why” more times than most, he blends curiosity-driven systems thinking with pragmatic execution to simplify complexity and improve developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Theology Theology in History, Master of Theology Theology in History at The University of Edinburgh
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