About

Neel Thomas is a highly skilled Lead Site Reliability Engineer with over 6 years of experience in the industry. He possesses strong automation skills and the ability to drive initiatives to automate processes. Neel has effective cross-functional leadership skills and works with engineering and operational teams to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and reliable. He has experience in configuration management solutions to meet the needs of application deployment and management. Neel has the ability to review deployment and operational environments, troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack, expand monitoring capabilities, and manage technical operations. Neel has previous experience implementing continuous delivery and DevOps solutions. He has experience designing and building solutions to move data and processing from on-premise solutions to cloud-based solutions. Neel maintains a balanced view on the delivery of solutions between architecture, time, cost, and quality. He leads and participates in the architectural design of features early in the development cycle, influencing it to drive quality and adherence to the specification. Neel is skilled in a variety of tools and coding languages, including Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Git, and Nginx. He has strong operational experience in Linux/Unix environments and scripting languages such as Shell and Python. Neel has also developed custom tools in the company to help with the production deployment. Currently, Neel works as a Site Reliability Engineer at Zolve. In the past, he has worked as a DevOps Engineer at Scaleway and as a Site Reliability Engineer at Careem. At Careem, he contributed to AWS cost savings across the company and saved a projected estimate of $336,000 annually for Careem Pay. Neel also developed and maintained the infrastructure set up with IaC using a mixture of CloudFormation and Terraform. He implemented CI/CD pipelines using the Gitlab pipelines and set up a cross-country VPN between on-premise server and AWS, with Ansible playbooks to configure it. Neel has maintained IaC framework for prod applications, infra alerts for Careem Pay with Terraform, and has troubleshooted any infra related issues for Careem Pay as part of the 24*7 on-call roster. He has also onboarded apps to Kubernetes platform for Careem Pay vertical using AWS EKS. Neel has a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the College of Engineering, Poonjar, India. He has also completed his Plus two from St. Antonys Public School Anakkal. Neel's tech stack includes S