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👋 I'm Thomas Thornton

Azure Architect • Technical Lead • Agentic AI & Platform Engineering

Microsoft MVPGitHub StarHashiCorp Ambassador

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My blog content has had over 1 million views. I work as a cloud architect and technical lead, designing Azure infrastructure, building internal developer platforms, and writing about what I actually run into on the job.


💡 What I Do

I'm a cloud architect and technical lead working across Azure infrastructure, Platform Engineering, and AI-driven automation.

Day to day that means designing and shipping Azure architectures, leading engineering teams, and building the internal platforms that help developers move quicker.

A few things I spend most of my time on:

  • 🏗️ Designing and leading Azure infrastructure delivery — security-first, cost-aware, and maintainable by the team that inherits it
  • 🚀 Building Internal Developer Platforms with self-service infrastructure, golden paths, and AI automation (Agentic AI + GitHub Copilot) that developers actually want to use
  • 📝 Writing technical content that's useful before a real deployment, not just in a demo environment
  • 🎤 Sharing what works — and what didn't — on my socials and at community events
  • 🔧 Open source IaC modules and tooling built around problems I've hit myself

🔭 What I'm working on in 2026

  • 🤖 Agentic AI and GitHub Copilot workflows with Azure OpenAI and AI Search
  • 🛡️ Internal Developer Platforms that scale without becoming a governance headache
  • ⚡ FinOps: actual cost reduction, not just right-sizing recommendations
  • 🔐 Zero Trust in Azure — identity-first, done properly

🛠️ Tech Stack

☁️ Cloud

Azure

🏗️ Infrastructure as Code

TerraformBicepARM

⚙️ CI/CD & Automation

GitHub ActionsAzure DevOps

🐳 Containers & Orchestration

DockerKubernetesAKS

💻 Languages & Scripting

PowerShellBashPythonGo

🤖 Platform Engineering & AI

Platform EngineeringDeveloper ExperienceAI AgentsGitHub Copilot


📊 GitHub Activity

Thomas' GitHub activity graph


📚 Latest Blog Posts

Topics I write about:

  • Azure Architecture & Production Patterns
  • Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms
  • Agentic AI & GitHub Copilot automation
  • Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
  • GitHub Actions & CI/CD at scale
  • Kubernetes/AKS & container strategies
  • Cloud Security & Zero Trust governance
  • FinOps & cost optimisation

🤝 Get in touch

Open to speaking at conferences and meetups, collaborating on open source, and connecting with engineers working on Azure, agentic AI and Platform Engineering.

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"Anyone can get it working. The craft is building it so well that nobody has to think about it at 3 AM."

⭐️ If something here is useful, share it or drop me a message.

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    A DevOps journey using Azure DevOps (CI/CD, reporting, terraform, AKS)

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  2. DevOps-The-Hard-Way-AzureDevOps-The-Hard-Way-AzurePublic

    Forked from AdminTurnedDevOps/DevOps-The-Hard-Way-AWS

    This repository contains free labs for setting up an entire workflow and DevOps environment from a real-world perspective in Azure

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  4. deploy-first-containerapp-terraformdeploy-first-containerapp-terraformPublic

    Deploy your first Azure Container App using Terraform & GitHub Action (CI/CD, terraform, Container App)

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  5. terraform-on-azureterraform-on-azurePublic

    A repo self-lead to give you an understanding on deploying Terraform on Azure

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  6. github-copilot-agent-skillsgithub-copilot-agent-skillsPublic

    Repo containing my GitHub Copilot Agent & Skills - continually experimenting!

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