Chad Thomas II

Achieved 99.5% uptime across AWS and EKS production workloads, built Prometheus and Grafana monitoring from scratch, and refactored Terraform infrastructure to cut deployment times from 3 hours to 15 minutes.

Refactored monolithic Terraform infrastructure for platform serving 4,000+ users across AWS Lambda, S3, and EC2, reducing infrastructure deployment time from 3 hours to 15 minutes. Built automated GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines featuring integrated automated plan, validation, testing, and apply on AWS Linux environments, reducing infrastructure

Ensured 99.9% uptime for government compliance workloads, established incident response processes, and architected a Python validation framework reaching 90% deployment coverage.

Administered production Linux servers and AWS EC2 instances, maintained PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, and built automated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.

Developed Python automated telemetry reporting dashboards and replaced manual status reporting with Python automation integrating with Jenkins APIs.

Automated regression and smoke test suites using Python on AWS, utilized SQL for data integrity validation, and conducted failure mode validation on production-bound code.

Developed Python data aggregation tools for customer telemetry analysis, created internal reporting dashboards with JavaScript and React, and troubleshot complex customer incidents.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification from Amazon Web Services, completed in August 2021.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification from Amazon Web Services, completed in July 2020.

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from North Carolina A&T State University.