Simon Thomas
Head Of Enterprise Modernization, Public Sector And Healthcare
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolSimon Thomas is a people-first technology leader with nearly three decades of hands-on and executive experience driving enterprise modernization, cloud migrations, and SaaS product transformations across public sector, healthcare, and HR/benefits domains. He has built high-performing global engineering, product, PMO, and security organizations from the ground up, led large-scale Azure cloud re-architectures, and guided post-acquisition technology integrations at scale. Simon combines C-level strategy with developer DNA—having progressed through engineering, architecture, and operations roles—which helps him balance product, compliance, and customer experience pragmatically. He’s delivered systems that support millions of users and peak traffic in the millions per day while enabling Fortune 100 customers, and he’s known for turning teams into future leaders. A practitioner of AI and machine learning with multiple certifications, he blends modern engineering practices (DevOps, automated lifecycles) with a strengths-based leadership style focused on ownership and collaboration. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he now leads enterprise modernization for public sector and healthcare at Thoughtworks while advising through Veritux.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Application Programming and Design, AAS, Application Programming and Design at College of DuPageA-Levels, A-Levels at Sevenoaks SchoolBS, Technical Management, BS, Technical Management at DeVry University
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Github Skills (20)
linux6
python6
subprocess6
staging4
provisioning4
vagrantfile4
vms4
virtualbox4
ansible3
vagrant3
libvirt3
infrastructure-management2
wordpress2
grafana1
docker1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
t0m-a/Vagrantfiles
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Provisioning Management for Development & Staging Environments in VirtualBox /w Vagrant
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 50 pushes in 9 days
provisioningvagrantvmsboxansible
t0m-a/scriptshells
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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