Daniel Wright
Staff DevOps Engineer at Stealth Startup
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Wright is a Staff DevOps Engineer based in Queensland, Australia with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms. He leads large engineering teams to deliver AWS and Kubernetes-based solutions, driving GitOps practices, Terraform IaC, and observability with Grafana while also building custom automation in Python and Go. Known for translating high-stakes reliability requirements into pragmatic architecture, he has repeatedly increased deployment frequency and restored multi-site uptime to four-nines. His background spans solo-platform ownership to leading 20+ engineer DevOps teams, combining deep technical mentorship with HR and people leadership. He also has a practical knack for cost optimisation and CI/CD improvements that materially reduce cloud spend and accelerate delivery.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Science at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Cashmere High School
English
Github Skills (154)
dashboard10
ebpf10
windows10
command-line-interface10
grafana10
terraform10
security10
promtail10
fluent-bit10
falco10
elasticsearch10
fluentd10
influxdb10
cloud-native10
k8s10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
BitGo/terraform-aws-bastion
Apr 2022 - Jun 2026
Terraform module for deploying an SSH Bastion host on AWS
Contributions:5 reviews, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 2 months
awsbastion-hostsshterraform-module
therealdwright/trufflehog-secrets-detector
Jun 2023 - Nov 2025
Detects Secrets on a GitHub Pull Request and Comments to Request Remediation
Contributions:4 reviews, 31 PRs, 50 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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