Summary
Daniel Lloyd is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 11+ years building cloud-native platforms and automations, now leading SRE efforts at Oracle while teaching scripting and Linux as an adjunct college instructor. He blends deep AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Linux expertise with hands-on automation in Python, Go, Bash and PowerShell to design resilient, GitOps-driven platforms. Previously he led platform and cloud engineering initiatives delivering Terraform- and Argo-based stacks and guided identity, DevOps and systems architecture across large enterprise deployments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation, mentorship, and translating operational requirements into repeatable infrastructure-as-code. An educator as well as practitioner, he brings classroom-tested clarity to complex operational tooling and training.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Northwest Missouri State University