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Thomas Kurian Theakanath

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Principal Platform Architect at Rhombus Power Inc.
📍 Los Gatos, California, United States

Thomas is a DevOps and Cloud Engineering leader with over 15 years of experience architecting automation for startups and large companies. An alumnus of IIT Bombay, his expertise spans cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and monitoring. Colleagues consistently describe him as an exceptional leader, fantastic mentor, and a calm, supportive professional.

Outside of technology, Thomas is a published author of two books. He wrote a technical guide on the Datadog monitoring platform and a political chronicle analyzing the rise of Barack Obama. He is also an avid reader who shares his thoughts on literature he enjoys.

He authored a book that accurately predicted Barack Obamas primary and general election victories.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Principal Platform Architect
Job Level
Middle
Location
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Datadog Monitoring
He is an expert on the platform, having authored the "Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide" and recently posted about its continued financial success.
Cloud & DevOps Automation
His entire career revolves around architecting and leading cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps initiatives at companies like SAP, TripActions, and Rhombus Power.
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Career

Work history

12-2022
Principal Platform Architect
Rhombus Power Inc.
10-2021 - 12-2022
Manager Release Engineering
TripActions
4-2019 - 10-2021
Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations
Baton Systems
3-2017 - 1-2020
Principal DevOps Consultant
Kurian
3-2017 - 3-2019
Expert DevOps Engineer
SAP Ariba
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Education
1990 - 1992
M.Tech.
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
1985 - 1989
B.Tech.
University of Calicut
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