# Kevin Thomas > Engineering @ Autopilot Location: Los Angeles, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinthomas ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Autopilot Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Autopilot Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Irvine, California, United States ### Co-Founder, Head of Software @ Gateways Creative Jan 2023 – Present | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ### SDE II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Cupertino, California, United States • Led team working on internal tools to increase developer experience, focusing on pre-production qualification velocity. • Owned, designed, and led team to build a centralized service managing all testing hardware at EBS. Features include capacity management, health monitoring, telemetry, and configuration. • Performed as team’s "gov cloud" operations engineer in datacenters reserved for government use. • Conducted interviews for EBS industry hiring and AWS Student Programs. ### SDE @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Cupertino, CA • Created a fully automated, end-to-end testing platform for all releases within the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) offering at AWS. Platform includes a full suite of performance and fault injection qualifications, cutting weeks of engineering hours from every release. Platform orchestrated thousands of EC2 instances driving millions of IOPS. ### Chief Technology Officer @ CGT Solutions, LLC Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States • Engineering advisor turned CTO to a medtech startup started at UPenn Nursing. • Won cash grant as runner-up in UPenn Nursing Innovation Accelerator program out of 16 teams. Accelerator was supported by several Philadelphia VCs and the Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania. • Designed and developed a POC for a child-safe wearable with anti-elopement safety features via ultra-wideband (UWB) indoor location tracking with centimeter level accuracy. ## Education ### Undergrad in Computer Science University of Pennsylvania Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevin-l-thomas --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinthomas JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinthomas/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22