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Thomas is a Fractional Tech Lead, CTO, and Tech Advisor with over 10 years of experience in Ruby and Cloud infrastructure. He believes in doing things properly for the benefit of the user and customer. He has been a Consultant since 2017, building and supporting teams through their growth and providing software and cloud infrastructure engineering services to clients.

Thomas's main technologies include Ruby, Python, AWS, GCP, and Terraform. He provides training and mentoring on various topics such as TDD, incident response, and product management.

Prior to his consulting work, Thomas worked as a Site Reliability Engineer and Head of Engineering. In those roles he led efforts to build an in-house team, grow products, and build and consolidate infrastructure on AWS. He also wrote articles for GNU Linux magazine and his blog for many years.