Summary
Thomas Kagan is a cloud infrastructure manager and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience delivering secure, scalable solutions for U.S. government customers including the Army, NRO, DARPA, and USPS. He combines hands-on cloud engineering—especially AWS services, NLP/ML integration, and CI/CD automation—with technical program and team leadership across classified and unclassified environments. Thomas has built everything from data pipelines and model-training workflows to full web UIs for debugging ML outputs, and he’s led teams of 14 while running SAFe projects to production. His background spans front-end visualization (React, D3, WebGL) to backend automation and infrastructure-as-code, reflecting a full-stack systems mindset. Notably, he has repeatedly bridged data science and engineering by operationalizing AWS Comprehend/NLP outputs into customer-facing tools. He holds a BBA in Management Computer Systems with a CS minor and is pursuing an MS in IT focused on Cloud Technologies.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Major - Management Computer Systems; Minor - Computer Science, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Major - Management Computer Systems; Minor - Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
GED, GED at Boylan Catholic High School, Rockford,IL