Adrian Balfour
DevOps Engineer at HiringThing
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAdrian Balfour is a DevOps and Cloud Operations engineer based in Denver with 10 years of hands-on experience building reliable, secure cloud platforms. He specializes in Azure-native tooling and AKS lifecycle management, CI/CD standardization, and infrastructure-as-code while championing DevSecOps and software supply chain security across teams. At SkyKick he led cross-team process improvements—from managed identity and permission controls to .NET migrations—and introduced enhanced monitoring and vulnerability scanning practices. Adrian pairs deep operational troubleshooting with a collaborative, team-focused approach, regularly running standups and sprint planning while consulting on release and deployment strategies. Early work on distributed deployment systems and educational meteorology games shows he’s comfortable moving between low-level automation and higher-level product intent. Colleagues rely on him to translate security and operational best practices into pragmatic, documented workflows that scale.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.80, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.80 at University of Oklahoma
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Github Skills (28)
state-machine9
netstandard8
stateflow8
nuget8
csharp8
dotnet7
extensible6
nlp6
grpc6
duplicates6
sql6
natural-language-processing6
nltk6
one-to-many6
ordinals6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
abalfour/REstate.Engine
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
The core and engine of REstate.
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
restate
abalfour/REstate
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
as-a-servicestate-managementstatemachineextensible
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