Tommy Forlini
Chief Engineer - Platform Engineering & Enablement
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolTommy Forlini is a seasoned platform engineering leader with 25+ years in IT and a decade in senior cloud and architecture roles, currently serving as Chief Engineer for Platform Engineering & Enablement at John Hancock. He specializes in designing and operationalizing cloud-native platforms—especially Kubernetes on AKS—service mesh, multi-tenancy, and cost-aware platform observability, and has driven re-platforming, security, and APM strategies at global financial firms. A hands-on technologist who also leads and mentors teams, Tommy has practical experience externalizing public internet content via Akamai and Istio and building cluster policy engines and reusable infrastructure blueprints. He combines deep systems-level troubleshooting (“creating, breaking, fixing”) with an ability to translate business strategy into scalable platform roadmaps. Based in Florida, he brings cross-border experience from Manulife to John Hancock, pairing enterprise rigor with pragmatic, code-first enablement.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A.E.C. Computer Science, A.E.C. Computer Science at CDI CollegeCertificate Leadership Workshop, Certificate Leadership Workshop at McGill University
English, French, Italian
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Github Skills (48)
terraform-provider9
terraform9
azure9
resource-manager8
azure-resource-manager8
security7
yeoman7
proxies7
microservices7
pug6
mongodb6
service-broker6
golang6
kubernetes6
angular-app6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
manulife-ets/dvna
Feb 2021 - May 2024
Damn Vulnerable NodeJS Application
Contributions:7 PRs, 10 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 3 months
vulnerablesecuritydamn-vulnerablenodejsnodejs-application
tommyforlini/tommyforlini
Oct 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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