Daren Lord
Staff Database Engineer
Kaysville, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaren Lord is a Staff Database Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and operating production data platforms. He specializes in containerized databases, Kubernetes infrastructure, and deployment automation, having led DataOps and Database reliability efforts at Overstock and now at theScore. Daren combines deep Oracle/Postgres/MariaDB expertise with modern tooling—Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Vault/Consul—and a proven track record of achieving high uptime and secure, auditable deployments. He also built self-service Data-as-a-Service capabilities and automated alerting/monitoring pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana and OpsGenie to reduce toil. Based in Kaysville, Utah, he brings both operational rigor from long-term on-call ownership and a developer-friendly mindset for cross-functional automation. Outside core duties he has a practical blend of formal certifications (Oracle, Citrix) and business training that helps bridge technical and stakeholder needs.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
OCA, Database Administration, OCA, Database Administration at Oracle UniversityBA, Business Administration, BA, Business Administration at Weber State UniversityCertification, XenDesktop Administration, Certification, XenDesktop Administration at Citrix University
Github Skills (200)
automation10
home-automation10
privacy10
python10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
garden10
iot10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
raspberry-pi10
security-automation9
command-line9
jekyll9
xonsh9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lorddaren/orquestaevaluator
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022
Tool used to parse and write YAQL/Jinja for Orquesta workflows.
Contributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 9 months
pythonjinjastackstormorquestaparse
Xorso/home-assistant
Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:26 pushes, 13 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
raspberry-pipythonmqtthome-automationpython-3
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