Thomas Zwinger
About Thomas Zwinger
Thomas Zwinger is a Site Reliability Engineer II at Kohl's, with a background in cloud engineering and web application development. He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has held various technical roles in multiple companies.
Title
Thomas Zwinger holds the position of Site Reliability Engineer II. He is currently working at Kohl's in this role.
Current Company
Thomas is employed at Kohl's as a Site Reliability Engineer II since 2022. He works remotely and is responsible for managing incidents related to Kohl’s supply chain.
Previous Employment
Thomas previously worked at C.H. Robinson as a Cloud Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer from 2021 to 2022 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Before that, he was a Cloud Engineer at Thomson Reuters from 2019 to 2021 in Minneapolis. He also held the role of Web Application Developer at Travelers in 2019 for 5 months in Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area and worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Computer Science Tutor from 2017 to 2018.
Education and Expertise
Thomas earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2016 to 2018. He has developed significant expertise in cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, and software development through his diverse work history.
Technical Projects and Initiatives
Thomas has developed a reliability-as-a-service platform with preventative alerting capabilities, created Helm charts for provisioning networking backends on clusters, and built a dynamic web application that interfaces with Splunk queries and Oracle DB calls, hosted in OpenShift. He also integrated AirFlow DAGs with BigPanda and ServiceNow for improved alerting and information aggregation.
Skills and Tools
Thomas utilizes tools such as Dynatrace to set up and manage observability and alerting as part of a migration from Splunk. His responsibilities include diagnosing issues ranging from networking errors to worn parts in distribution centers and collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions.