Darrel Clute
Infrastructure Engineer at Cloudflare
Homer, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarrel Clute is an IT Infrastructure Architect with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and modernizing data centers, networking, security, virtualization, and UNIX systems to align technical platforms with business needs. He combines deep cross-functional expertise—having led multiple data center builds and credit card processing platform modernization—with a strong advocacy for automation, orchestration, and consistent toolsets across disciplines. Darrel champions enterprise open source adoption and community engagement, and he emphasizes Infrastructure as Code and Agile operations to improve reliability and repeatability. Based in Homer, Michigan, he has served senior roles at Cloudflare, ViaSat, and multiple infrastructure consultancies, bringing pragmatic leadership, mentoring, and a knack for optimizing designs around existing assets. An entrepreneur at heart, he previously founded and ran a technology firm, blending technical execution with governance and business operations.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, General Education, High School Diploma, General Education at Albion Senior High SchoolN/A, Computer Networking, N/A, Computer Networking at Calhoun Area Technology Center
Github Skills (72)
python10
infrastructure10
infrastructure-management10
network-automation10
netmiko9
django9
package-repository9
scale9
cisco9
netbox9
automation9
remote-execution9
napalm9
docker9
zeromq9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
darrelclute/darrelclute.github.io
Jan 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:79 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years
darrelclute/dotfiles
Dec 2014 - Jul 2022
Contributions:178 commits, 37 pushes in 7 years 7 months
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