Thomas Uphill
Staff Systems Engineer at Packt Publishing
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Uphill is a Staff Systems Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure and automation for enterprises, currently shaping infrastructure-as-code at ServiceNow using Terraform, Ansible, and Python. He brings deep ops pedigree from roles managing thousands of Puppet-managed nodes and mission-critical Linux/VMware/Oracle environments at organizations like Wells Fargo and Costco. An experienced author and speaker, he has written technical books on Puppet and DevOps and regularly presents on configuration management and version control. His background includes long-term leadership of department-wide IT at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he ran heterogeneous server estates, SANs, and custom Linux distributions—evidence of strong systems design and operational discipline. Comfortable at the intersection of development and operations, he pairs hands-on coding with robust automation and CI/CD practices. Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines academic rigor (MS Computer Science) with practical, production-first engineering.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Science: Biology and Mathematics, Bachelor Science: Biology and Mathematics at Simon Fraser UniversityMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Rutgers University
English
Github Skills (15)
stash8
aix8
bitbake8
puppet8
solaris7
release-management6
pcf6
gitlab6
linux6
server6
r10k6
deployment-automation5
bolt4
puppet-enterprise4
infrastructure-management3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uphillian/lisa2015
Sep 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years
uphillian/lisa2016
Oct 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
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