Dan Lydiard
Principal Cloud Architect at Brightly
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorDan Lydiard is a Principal Cloud Architect based in Seattle with over a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms, internal developer platforms, and CI/CD tooling. He blends hands-on full‑stack and startup founder experience with enterprise cloud architecture—driving migrations to Kubernetes/OpenShift, GitOps with ArgoCD, serverless patterns, and IaC using Terraform and AWS CDK. At Brightly he led portfolio-wide platform strategy and delivery, reducing TCO while improving SLAs and developer velocity, and earlier built high‑traffic, resilient systems (14M monthly page views) as a founder. Comfortable across languages and stacks (TypeScript/Node, C#, Java, PHP) he pairs UX sensibility with deep infrastructure expertise and a pragmatic focus on operational excellence and security. An operator at heart, he has repeatedly translated complex requirements into predictable, low-latency, highly available systems.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
dashboard10
grafana10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
monitoring10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
pipeline10
data-visualization10
continuous-deployment10
mysql10
cd10
analytics10
cicd10
go10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
BrightlySoftware/bee-demo
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
node bee demo for openshift
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 248 pushes in 11 months
beeopenshift
dlydiard/ddd-cqrs-es-aws-sam
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Comprehensive Domain Driven Design, CQRS, and Event Sourcing example utilizing AWS SAM.
Contributions:4 commits, 29 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 months
api-gatewayserverlesscqrsdomain-drivencodestar
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