Thomas Thornton
Senior Azure Technical Specialist at Kainos
Banbridge, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Thornton is a Senior Azure Technical Specialist with 11 years’ experience designing, automating, and operating cloud-native platforms, primarily on Microsoft Azure. He combines hands-on expertise in AKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps with solution architecture and delivery assurance across the full project lifecycle. At Kainos he shapes technical roadmaps, leads teams, mentors engineers and owns production digital service platforms where pragmatic decisions matter under pressure. An active DevOps advocate on GitHub, he contributes infrastructure-as-code and automated tests—demonstrated by his DevOps-Journey repo that implements Terraform, AKS and InSpec validation. Based in Northern Ireland, he’s known for translating complex cloud designs into repeatable, well-documented pipelines and for enjoying the craft of reading and improving code as much as writing it.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Foundation Degree in Computing Science, Distinction, Associate's Degree, Foundation Degree in Computing Science, Distinction at Southern Regional CollegeBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of UlsterHigh School, GCSES, 9 GCSEs Including: Mathematics, Double Award Science, English and ICT at grade, High School, GCSES, 9 GCSEs Including: Mathematics, Double Award Science, English and ICT at grade at Banbridge High SchoolAssociate's Degree, BTEC National Diploma for ICT Practioners, MMM, Associate's Degree, BTEC National Diploma for ICT Practioners, MMM at BTEC National Diploma
Github Skills (17)
azure-devops-server10
inspec10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
azure-devops10
azure10
k8s10
kubernetes9
dockers9
containerization9
docker9
kubernetes-pods9
netcore8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
thomast1906/DevOps-Journey-Using-Azure-DevOps
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
A DevOps journey using Azure DevOps (CI/CD, reporting, terraform, AKS)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 24 PRs, 36 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to infrastructure-as-code and testing, developing and modifying Terraform scripts to set up Azure resources, specifically focusing on Azure AD groups, storage accounts, and application deployment. The user also implemented InSpec tests to validate the infrastructure configuration, including Key Vault, Virtual Networks, AKS clusters, and Container Registries. Furthermore, the user made changes to application code within the context of deploying an application to Azure, updating various files related to the frontend and backend logic of an application.
reportingdevopsazure-app-serviceci-cdjourney
thomast1906/thomast1906
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Config files for my GitHub profile.
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
configconfig-files
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