Platform Engineer

Forrest Thomas

Building open source software for regulated industries — with a focus on healthcare and AI infrastructure.

SF Bay Area

What I Do

I'm a platform engineer with 10+ years of experience building cloud-native platforms in industries where reliability and compliance aren't optional — banking at Capital One, regulated fintech at Paxos, and now healthcare at Garner Health, where I'm a Staff Site Reliability Engineer. Most recently I've focused on enterprise AI adoption: evaluation platforms, governance, and the developer experience that makes AI safe to use in production.

Highlights

10+ Years of Platform Engineering

Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and developer platforms across four companies and three regulated industries.

Open Source for Regulated Industries

Building in the open: a self-hosted AI agent runtime, contributions to Kubernetes Flagger, and a provisional patent in cloud provisioning.

AI Infrastructure & Evaluation