David Lyons
DevOps Engineer at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rock Springs, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Lyons is a DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating reproducible web applications for scientific communities, currently serving at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He combines hands-on DevOps practices with data engineering leadership experience, having moved between DevOps and manager roles to bridge infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and scientist-facing platforms. Prior service in the US EPA and a long military career (including helicopter instructor pilot and 2nd Ranger Battalion squad leadership) contribute strong operational discipline, security mindset, and mission-focused collaboration. David holds a BS in Information Technology and an MBA, and is particularly passionate about making scientific data discoverable and reproducible through well-engineered web apps. Based in Rock Springs, Wisconsin, he brings a rare mix of scientific domain empathy, enterprise-grade infrastructure know-how, and real-world leadership under pressure.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at Northcentral UniversityBS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at University of Phoenix
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Github Skills (24)
exposure10
science9
python8
machine-learning8
data-science8
django-blog7
sql6
ssl-certificate6
ip6
storage5
django5
data-management4
backend4
javascript3
css3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HumanExposure/factotum_ws
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Web Services for Factotum
Contributions:1 release, 46 PRs, 47 pushes in 11 months
web-services
quanted/qed_hem
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 4 PRs, 34 pushes in 6 months
djangopythonhost
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