Summary
Phil Thomson is a Container Infrastructure Architect with 9 years of focused experience designing, deploying, and automating OpenShift and container platforms at scale, currently driving container strategy at Red Hat from Kelowna, BC. He blends systems-level curiosity with pragmatic automation—authoring Terraform and Ansible-driven deployments that enable one-click OpenShift environments across VMware, AWS, and Azure. His background spans hands-on infrastructure roles from NetApp and VMware storage upgrades to designing network and authentication systems, giving him a rare end-to-end view of production reliability and security. Phil excels at fixing processes rather than symptoms, turning operational pain points into repeatable, documented workflows and training labs. He’s comfortable in both consulting and enterprise contexts, having led cluster rollouts, reclaimed terabytes of capacity, and delivered infrastructure training. Outside the obvious container work, he brings practical field experience in large-scale networking and industrial systems that informs resilient architecture decisions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Networks Engineering Technologist, Diploma, Computer Networks Engineering Technologist at RCC College of Technology
Marathon High School