Thomas Athanas
Head of Engineering at LevelAll with experience in building infrastructure-focused systems, avoiding vendor lock-in, and leading migrations and scaling efforts for high-concurrency education applications.
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Mar 7, 2026 • 1h 38min
Thomas Athanas on Building Without Vendor Lock-In
Thomas Athanas, Head of Engineering at LevelAll, is an infrastructure-focused leader who builds systems to avoid vendor lock-in. He talks about moving off PaaS to bare metal, handling 50,000 concurrent education users, removing LiveView and Ash from production, using AI as a “Lore Master” for institutional memory, and migrating auth from Auth0 to FusionAuth after rate-limit failures.
