Winston Rast
Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolWinston Rast is a Principal Consultant and seasoned chief architect with over 25 years of experience designing, modernizing, and migrating enterprise applications across Java, Spring, AWS, and cloud platforms like Pivotal Cloud Foundry. He combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership—driving large migration roadmaps, factory-style replatforming, and AI-infused modernization efforts while mentoring architects and developer teams. Winston has repeatedly transformed monolithic Java/.NET systems into microservices-based, cloud-native solutions and built migration starter kits and developer cookbooks to accelerate adoption. His background spans product and platform roles at Thoughtworks, Cognizant, VMware and startups, demonstrating a rare mix of delivery velocity and architectural stewardship. Based in Colorado Springs, he’s known for rapidly prototyping production-grade tools (from iOS apps to migration utilities) that turn architectural strategy into tangible developer outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at University of Colorado DenverGeorgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (14)
elm7
concourse7
continuous-integration7
pcf7
runc7
cloud-foundry7
go6
containerd6
command-line-utility6
continuous-delivery6
cicd5
playframework5
automation4
switch3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ECSTeam/pcf-connect
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:70 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
command-line-utilityswitchenvironmentspcf
wrast/cna-iaas-smoke-test
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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