Zachary Thomas
Lead Solutions Architect at National Football League (NFL)
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Thomas is a Lead Solutions Architect with nine years of experience designing cloud-native systems and driving FinOps at scale, most recently advising the NFL after leading cost-optimization and architecture efforts at DIRECTV. He combines a Human Centered Design and Data Science background from the University of Washington with hands-on engineering—building Go microservices, PySpark cost pipelines, and real-time monitoring stacks—to translate product needs into secure, cost-effective AWS solutions. At DIRECTV he engineered initiatives that reduced compute and data service spend by over 50%, saving the company tens of millions annually while creating executive-facing dashboards and runbooks. Comfortable briefing C-suite stakeholders and guiding cross-functional teams, he also helps financial firms migrate and operationalize AI-ready data pipelines. A former UX-focused data scientist, he brings a rare mix of user-centric thinking and cloud financial discipline to large-scale systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Human Centered Design and Engineering, Data Science, 3.53, Bachelor of Science - BS, Human Centered Design and Engineering, Data Science, 3.53 at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tamalpais High School
Github Skills (1)
javascript3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zachthomas823/The-Dragons-P2
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 days
zachthomas823/zachthomas823.github.io
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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