Daniel Wilkinson
Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Wilkinson is a Staff Software Engineer in Platform Engineering with 8+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and automated deployment pipelines. He designs and implements IaC-driven stacks in AWS and Azure—spanning VPCs, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, and self-hosted CI runners—using Terraform, CDK, Chef, and GitHub Actions. Daniel has led large migrations from on-prem to cloud, created operational runbooks and Rundeck jobs for disaster recovery and regional cutovers, and integrated monitoring and alerting into team workflows. He focuses on eliminating ClickOps through repeatable CI/CD and config management, boosting developer velocity and reliability across legacy and modernized systems. Based in Portland, he combines platform-level architecture with pragmatic operational tooling and a visible liking for automating repetitive work. An atypical detail: he’s built entire production-ready environments from a blank AWS account multiple times, demonstrating both depth in bootstrapping infrastructure and an ability to document and teach those patterns.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's Degree Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree Computer Information Systems at University of Texas at TylerTyler Junior College
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
backstage10
infrastructure10
dx10
service-catalog10
microservices10
multilingual8
epub8
powershell-core7
lambda7
linux7
powershell-cmdlets7
docker7
kaggle7
scalable6
powershell-module6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dawilk/workflows
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Reusable workflows for GitHub Actions
Contributions:8 reviews, 2 commits, 16 PRs in 1 month
reusable-workflowsci-cdworkflowsreusableworkflow
dawilk/backstage
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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