Darren Taylor
Senior Engineer at Kiwibank
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Taylor is a Senior Engineer and solution-focused DevOps/Cloud Architect with over 8 years in cloud-native transformations and a two-decade background in infrastructure delivery. Based in Auckland, he blends hands-on automation (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS CI/CD) with deep networking and storage expertise to modernize traditional workloads into scalable hybrid-cloud designs. He has driven reliability and delivery improvements through roles at Kiwibank and Revera, pairing pragmatic engineering with vendor and project management experience. Known as a "dabbler of tech" on GitHub, Darren stays curious and continuously experiments with tooling to shrink feedback loops and reduce operational toil. Practical and business-aware, he focuses on solutions that meet immediate needs while keeping long-term scalability and risk reduction front of mind.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BBUS Double Major - IT / Management, BBUS Double Major - IT / Management at Auckland University of Technology
Github Skills (35)
lan10
spoofing10
recipe10
dns-cache10
cookbook9
planning8
django8
dns8
lists7
markdown7
docker7
vcloud-director6
controller6
director4
solar4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dwtaylornz/aws-hello-world
Mar 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 3 months
dwtaylornz/hevctranscode
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:13 releases, 257 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 2 months
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