Summary
Dalen L is a DevOps and site reliability engineer with five years of cross-industry experience (FinTech, SaaS, CCaaS) focused on AWS-driven observability, automation and incident reduction. Currently a Technical Solutions Operations Engineer at Datadog, he blends hands-on Terraform, ECS/Fargate, Lambda and Datadog experience with strong customer-facing skills developed as a solutions engineer and support specialist. He has a track record of improving availability and MTTR—driving a 25% responsiveness lift and 30% faster resolution in prior roles—while codifying monitoring standards and integrating alerting into Slack/Jira. Educated in Information and Communication Technology with a major in Health Informatics, he brings an analytical, user-centered approach to system design and migrations (including RDS→Redshift and EC2→Fargate). Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and curious—he once built a custom React/TypeScript Datadog widget and a small game during a hackathon, showing he pairs operational rigor with creative problem-solving.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology, High Distinction (6.2 GPA), Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology, High Distinction (6.2 GPA) at Western Sydney University