About This Blog
I’m Forrest Thomas, a platform engineer with 10+ years of experience building cloud-native platforms in industries where reliability and compliance aren’t optional — banking at Capital One, regulated fintech at Paxos, observability at Splunk, and now healthcare at Garner Health, where I’m a Staff Site Reliability Engineer.
What I Write About
Open source in regulated industries: Healthcare, finance, and other regulated spaces depend on software they can inspect, audit, and control. I write about why open source matters in these environments and how to build it well.
Platform engineering: Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and developer experience — the platform primitives that let teams move quickly without sacrificing reliability.
AI infrastructure: Evaluation, governance, and context platforms for enterprise AI, and what it takes to run AI systems safely in production. I’m the author of Pi Harness, an open-source coding agent harness that makes agent evaluation verifiable — versioned eval contracts, reproducible pass-rate-and-cost scorecards, and a nightly self-measured baseline.
About the Archive
You’ll find a handful of posts from 2025 about quantum computing in the archive. Those are from an earlier learning-in-public phase — I’ve left them up as a record of that exploration.