Thomas Hanley
Senior Director Of DevOps & Developer Productivity at Sonatus
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Hanley is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building developer productivity, DevOps, and platform engineering at startups and scale-ups across the Bay Area. As a co-founder and Head of Technology, he designed a multi-tenant provisioning platform integrating Google Workspace, Okta, Zoom, and MS365, led SCIM/OAuth-based security, and guided AI/ML access-review pipelines on GCP to SOC2 Type 2 certification. He has repeatedly scaled CI/CD and service delivery systems—most recently directing developer productivity and platform teams at WePay, Notable, and Sonatus—while managing remote, international engineering organizations. Known for pragmatic technical design, Thomas blends hands-on implementation (CI/CD, service mesh, monitoring, tooling) with strategic program leadership to move complex identity and infrastructure projects into production. A liberal-arts-trained technologist based in Redwood City, he pairs deep infra expertise with a founder’s aptitude for productizing security and automation.
18 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Liberal Studies, Fine Arts, BS, Liberal Studies, Fine Arts at Notre Dame de Namur UniversityBiology, Biology at Regis UniversityDe La Salle High School
Github Skills (58)
pooling9
database8
rails8
postgresql7
failover7
rust7
multiplexer6
workspace6
sharding6
load-balancing6
frontend5
command-line-arguments5
buildkite4
bash4
foursquare4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tjhanley/opsworks-cookbooks
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:32 commits in 17 days
tjhanley/spud
Feb 2026 - Mar 2026
Contributions:6 reviews, 31 PRs, 53 pushes in 23 days
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