Dan Ward
DevOps Engineer at Southern Company
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDan Ward is a DevOps engineer with nine years in dedicated DevOps roles and roughly two decades of hands-on software and automation experience. He designs and operates secure, compliance-focused AWS infrastructures—having led a HIPAA-sensitive lift-and-shift migration fully managed with Terraform—and builds bespoke observability and alerting systems for cloud and application events. Comfortable from scripting to architecture, he has a reputation for automating repetitive work (PowerShell is a noted favorite) and creating utilities that accelerate both DevOps and developer workflows. Dan has held senior and leadership positions across industries, teaching colleagues about network design, modern DevOps practices, and Git workflows while driving repeatable build-and-deploy processes. Based in Boston, he blends practical engineering with a security-first mindset and an appetite for scripting everything. An often-overlooked strength: he consistently translates complex compliance requirements into auditable, automated infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
atom-editor10
powershell-core10
windows10
linux10
command-line10
netcore10
prettify10
powershell10
macos10
shell10
editor9
beautifier9
microsoft9
electron9
visual-studio-code9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DTW-DanWard/OctopusDeployUtilities
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:298 commits, 91 pushes, 3 tags in 8 months
DTW-DanWard/PowerShell-Beautifier
Jun 2017 - May 2019
A whitespace reformatter and code cleaner for Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core
Contributions:81 commits, 9 PRs, 98 pushes in 1 year 11 months
powershellpowershell-corewindowswindows-powershell
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