Dakota Washok
DevOps Engineer at AdAction
Island Lake, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDakota Washok is a DevOps Engineer with 11 years of software development experience who has transitioned from full-stack web work into automating and optimizing cloud infrastructure. He currently drives CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code at AdAction using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions and CodePipeline, and leverages Datadog for real-time observability to cut deployment time and surface performance issues. Prior roles span PHP, Laravel, Vue, AngularJS and WordPress maintenance, giving him a practical appreciation for legacy systems and developer ergonomics. Based in Island Lake, Illinois, he combines hands-on troubleshooting (from device repair to server administration) with a data-driven approach to reliability. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complex deployment workflows and turn ad-hoc firefighting into repeatable processes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Repair Certificate Computer Programming Certificate Computer Science, Computer Repair Certificate Computer Programming Certificate Computer Science at Kishwaukee CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at PennWest EdinboroComputer Science, Computer Science at Northern Illinois University
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Github Skills (28)
php-server8
php8
status-page8
laravel8
web-application7
composer7
vue6
sdk5
feature-flags5
continuous-deployment5
devops4
continuous-delivery4
api3
riot-games-api3
storekit3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dakotawashok/loldashboard
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 91 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
AdGem/url-shortener
Jan 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:4 releases, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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