Tom Sherrod
Principal Systems Architect at SAS
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Sherrod is a Principal Systems Architect with 11 years of formal software experience and over three decades in IT, currently shaping cloud-native deployments and Kubernetes-based delivery at SAS from Raleigh, NC. He blends deep operational roots—from systems programming and IT leadership to PaaS and Cloud Foundry operations—with hands-on platform engineering, automation, and DevOps practices. At SAS he has led Kubernetes and managed-cluster adoption, bringing practical experience installing and operating complex platforms across OpenStack, VMware, and AWS. Known for a learn-share-improve mindset, he focuses on making infrastructure reliable and repeatable while mentoring teams to close the gap between development and operations. A pragmatic technologist, Tom pairs long institutional knowledge with continuous experimentation in container orchestration and platform tooling.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina State University
Github Skills (96)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tomsherrod/gitops-certification-examples
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Examples for the GitOps certification
Contributions:9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
gitopskubernetescertification
tomsherrod/gitops-cert-level-2-examples
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
GitOps Certification Level 2 examples
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years 6 months
gitopskubernetescertificationlevel-2
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