Thornton Phillis
Technical Consultant DevOps Tech Lead at CACI Ltd
Barnsley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThornton Phillis is a pragmatic DevOps tech lead and technical consultant with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure across SMBs and enterprise clients. He specializes in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD and containerization, pairing infrastructure-as-code with pragmatic automation to deliver highly available, scalable platforms. Thornton has led greenfield builds and cloud transformations, translating business and security requirements into maintainable IaC, and has repeatedly stepped into on-call and support roles to keep production systems resilient. Comfortable with languages from PHP to Go and JavaScript, he blends deep infrastructure skill with application-level insight—an asset when troubleshooting deployment pipelines or lifting legacy stacks to modern cloud patterns. Based in Barnsley, he’s known for turning small DevOps teams into repeatable delivery engines and for integrating existing enterprise systems (like LDAP) into secure cloud IAM.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Computing, ICT, Media, Photography, Associate’s Degree, Computing, ICT, Media, Photography at Barnsley CollegeHigh School, GSCEs, High School, GSCEs at Willowgarth High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer networking, Bachelor's Degree, Computer networking at Teesside University
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Github Skills (22)
event-manager10
app-manager10
lan9
intranet7
azerothcore6
laravel6
mysql6
php4
omnipay4
dedicated-server4
docker3
docker-container3
nginx3
driver3
gameserver3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
th0rn0/lanops-discord-bot
Mar 2024 - Jun 2026
Discord Bot that integrates with the LanOps Manager
Contributions:1 review, 13 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 4 months
th0rn0/lanops-spotify-jukebox
Jul 2023 - Apr 2026
Frontend and Backend for Spotify Party Jukebox with Voting
Contributions:12 PRs, 91 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 9 months
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