Thom Toogood
Senior DevOps Engineer (AI) at Bayleys Real Estate (Fiji) Limited
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolThom Toogood is a Senior DevOps Engineer (AI) based in Auckland with 12 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native delivery platforms and automation pipelines. He has held technical and leadership roles across fintech, digital agencies, and platform companies, including recent platform engineering at Westpac NZ and executive/partner roles at amazee.io. Thom contributes to well-known open-source projects like Lagoon (developer-focused app delivery) and Acquia's BLT, focusing on deployment automation, CI/CD integration, and infrastructure scripting—skills that translate directly into reliable, repeatable production workflows. His background spans hands-on systems support and web architecture through to strategic growth and advisory work, reflecting both deep technical craft and commercial perspective. Based in Auckland but experienced across APAC and the Pacific, he also runs technology operations for Bayleys Real Estate (Fiji), showing a knack for applying engineering discipline in non-traditional tech settings. Colleagues describe him as an automation-first engineer who bridges developer experience and operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Accounting on Computer (MYOB), Accounting, Accounting on Computer (MYOB), Accounting at Gilligan’s Business SchoolEnglish, Maths, Accounting, Design, Physics, English, Maths, Accounting, Design, Physics at Senior College of NZDiploma of Business Systems, IT, Diploma of Business Systems, IT at SpherionBasic Electronics, Electronics, Basic Electronics, Electronics at Auckland University of TechnologyEnglish, Maths, Accounting, Graphics, Physics, English, Maths, Accounting, Graphics, Physics at Kings College
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Github Skills (25)
drupal10
docker10
scripting10
cil10
bash10
dockers10
automation10
php10
script10
openshift10
sh10
automations10
shell10
devops10
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
uselagoon/lagoon
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Lagoon, the developer-focused application delivery platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 20 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Thom's contributions primarily focused on improving and maintaining the Lagoon platform's infrastructure and deployment processes. They implemented changes to scripts used for building and deploying applications, including updates to cron job scheduling and the addition of a new environment variable. Further work included enhancements to storage calculation scripts and configuring OpenShift deployments, indicating a focus on automation and cloud infrastructure. They also made modifications to PHP configuration and dependencies, demonstrating their proficiency in managing application environments.
delivery-platformfocusedlagoonapplication-delivery
acquia/blt
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Acquia's toolset for automating Drupal 8 and 9 development, testing, and deployment.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 36 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Thom contributed to the automation and integration aspects of the project, evident in their updates to Probo integration scripts, which are part of the CI/CD pipeline. They also added functionality related to headless Chrome browser configuration and usage within the testing framework, indicating an automation and testing focus. Additionally, the user modified the composer plugin to scaffold composer include files, improving the build process. These actions collectively highlight the user's role in automating development, testing, and deployment processes within the Drupal project.
continuous-testingwaitdeploymenttestingdrupal
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