Neel Thomas

Senior Software Engineer

Mesa, Arizona, United States3 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable cloud infrastructures.
  • Proven track record in AI and DevOps practices.
  • Led SOC1&2 certification process successfully.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in cloud infrastructure and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Cloud ComputingDevopsSite Reliability Engineering

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAmazon CloudWatchAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleAutomationCI/CDCloudformationConfiguration ManagementCross-functional leadershipData AnalysisData PlatformDockerGitGo (Programming Language)Golang

About

* Skilled in the following tools: Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Git and Nginx, Terraform, Cloudformation. * Strong operational experience in Linux/Unix environment and scripting languages: Shell, Golang * Well versed in container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Mesos. * Strong automation skills and the ability to drive initiatives to automate processes. * Effective cross-functional leadership skills: working with engineering and product teams to ensure systems are built-in secure, scalable, and reliable manner. * Configuration management solutions to meet the needs of application deployment and management. * Ability to review deployment and operational environments, i.e., execute initiatives to reduce failure, troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack, expand monitoring capabilities, and manage technical operations. * Hands-on experience implementing continuous delivery and best practices for DevOps solutions. * Experience designing and building solutions to move data and processing from on-premise solutions to cloud-based solutions. * Maintain a balanced view on the delivery of solutions between architecture, time, cost and quality. * Lead and participate in the architectural design of features early in the development cycle, influencing it to drive quality and adherence to the specification. * Lead the SOC1&2 certification process for Zolve(SOC1 completed)

Experience

Life360

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer ( AI Cloud )

Promoted

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

  • Member of AI-Core team which helps in adoption of AI practices at Life360's newly formed AI Center of Excellence.
  • Enhance developer velocity by implementing AI observability tools, resulting in improved efficiency.
  • Pioneer AI prompt engineering techniques, boosting model performance and developer engagement across the organization.
  • Develop MCP Servers and deployments to meet organizational needs and implementing Gen-AI agents for autonomous tasks like incident reporting.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)MCPPrompt EngineeringCloud Computing

Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Operations)

Jun 2024Aug 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

Software Engineer (Cloud Operations)

Jun 2023Jun 2024 · 1 yr

DevOpsConfiguration ManagementSite Reliability EngineeringGo (Programming Language)TerraformGit+12

Dview.io

Building Infra (founding engineer )

Nov 2022Jun 2023 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

DevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringGo (Programming Language)GitAWS LambdaObservability+9

Freelance consultant

DevOps Consultant

May 2022Nov 2022 · 6 mos

  • Took a self-imposed break from my regular job to work as a freelance consultant SRE.
  • My portfolio website https://codeworks.cloud/
  • In this role my responsibility includes:
  • provide support for organisations that I sign NDA with end-to-end Infrastructure requirements
  • implementing SLI/SLO's/SLA's based on the business metrics
  • building proper CI-CD pipelines
  • setting up K8s clusters for deployment orchestration.
  • setting up proper observability and visibility platform.
Software DevelopmentAmazon CloudWatchCloud ComputingDevOps

Zolve

Site Reliability Engineer

Apr 2021May 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Built the entire infrastructure for Zolve from scratch single-handedly.
  • Deployed and managed over 20+ apps in Kubernetes built on top of AWS EKS across 2 Data Center's.
  • Built scalable CI-CD Platform based on Github and Jenkins, phasing out to GitOps based pipelines using Argo CD.
  • Set up highly secure and scalable Istio Ingress Gateway which acts as the entry point Gateway
  • Designed, deployed and maintained Kubernetes Ingress Controllers built using Nginx across multi-region Kubernetes clusters.
  • Automated NewRelic APM alerting to OpsGenie using Terraform for 20+ applications.
  • Set up highly scalable observability and monitoring platform based on Prometheus and Grafana.
  • As part of the Data Warehouse team implemented a highly reliant Analytics, Business data analyzing platform, used by 30+ users which are built using AWS RedShift, Metabase.
GitAWS LambdaSoftware DevelopmentAmazon CloudWatchCloud ComputingSite Reliability Engineering

Scaleway

DevOps Engineer

Sep 2020Dec 2020 · 3 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

  • Stationed in the Scaleway Paris office and part of the team that deployed and maintained the Scaleway Docker Container Registry across France, Netherlands Data Center's.
  • Integral part of the team responsible for setting up the Docker Container Registry in Scaleway Poland Data Center.
GitSoftware DevelopmentAmazon CloudWatchCloud ComputingDevOps

Careem

Site Reliability Engineer

Sep 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr · Media city Dubai

  • Worked in Careem Dubai H.Q, a Uber subsidiary.
  • Contributed to AWS cost savings across the company, saved a projected estimate of $336,000 annually for Careem Pay
  • Developed and maintained the infrastructure set up with IaC using a mixture of CloudFormation and Terraform.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using the Gitlab pipelines.
  • Set up cross country VPN between on-premise server and AWS, with Ansible playbooks to configure it
  • Maintained IaC framework for prod applications, created New Relic APM alerts for Careem Pay apps with Terraform (≈ 20 services, ≈ 320 alerts per environment)
  • Troubleshoot any infra related issues for Careem Pay, as part of the 24*7 on-call roster.
  • Onboarded apps to Kubernetes platform for Careem Pay vertical using AWS EKS.
GitSoftware DevelopmentAmazon CloudWatchCloud ComputingDevOps

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

DevOps engineer

Oct 2017Sep 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Maintained highly available container orchestration infrastructure at Ola built on top Apache Mesos, Marathon framework.
  • Created Infrastructure and migrated payment solutions applications from AWS to Azure as part of cost reduction, saving approximate 20% of the overall cost.
  • Worked with Engineering and Product teams to build systems that are secure, scalable, and reliable.
  • Part of the on-call team working 24/7 which is responsible for the overall reliability of various systems at Ola.
GitSoftware DevelopmentAmazon CloudWatchCloud ComputingDevOps

Bobcares

Linux System Engineer

May 2015Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Provided expertise to more than 25 clients spread across Africa and Australia in Linux Server administration.
  • Troubleshoot issues like spamming, spoofing, phishing, hacking on VPS and Dedicated Server's
Software DevelopmentAmazon CloudWatchCloud ComputingDevOps

Education

College of Engineering, Poonjar

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

St. Antonys Public School Anakkal

Plus two

Jan 1997Jan 2011

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