Daniel Butler
Technical Development Lead at IBM
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Butler is a Technical Development Lead with 11 years of experience architecting and automating CI/CD and deployment pipelines at IBM, specialising in scaling automation for cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes. He has progressed from test automation and .NET development into leading teams that build resilient delivery systems for IBM Cloud and Watson services. Comfortable across Java, Groovy, Selenium, Jenkins and C#, he blends deep hands-on engineering with team leadership to turn complex release processes into repeatable, auditable automation. Based in Dublin, he brings practical experience modernising legacy systems and migrating deployment practices to Kubernetes at enterprise scale. Notably, his career reflects a steady shift from test-focused automation to platform-level pipeline leadership, giving him a strong operational perspective on software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Certificate, Computing, Higher Certificate, Computing at Institute of Technology, Carlow
English
Github Skills (160)
controller10
ibm-cloud10
statefulset10
terraform10
terraform-module10
pods10
terraform-registry10
daemonset10
activity-tracker10
storage10
landing-zone10
private-network10
logdna10
bucket10
terraform-provider10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
daniel-butler-irl/VS_Code_Catalog_Json_Editor
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:44 releases, 89 PRs, 145 pushes in 4 months
daniel-test-bed/pipeline-triggers
May 2023 - Apr 2024
Testing pipeline trigger methods
Contributions:3 reviews, 30 PRs, 59 pushes in 11 months
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