Dean Taylor
Senior DevOps Engineer, Research Systems at The University of Sydney
Kanowna, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Taylor is a Senior DevOps and Research Engineer with nine years focused on building and operating research infrastructure across HPC, hybrid cloud, and cloud-native environments. Based in Western Australia, he blends systems-level design with hands-on platform delivery, driving DevSecOps practices that make research workflows scalable, secure, and repeatable. His background spans from low-level embedded control systems to leading university-scale HPC and cloud migrations, giving him a rare combination of practical ops experience and architectural insight. At The University of Sydney he coordinates cross-team partnerships and transfers operational responsibility through design standards and knowledge-sharing. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex research requirements into resilient platforms that balance innovation with maintainability. Outside formal roles he has taught computing for years, which informs his clear documentation and mentoring approach when building operational teams.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Diploma of Applied Science, Computer Science, Associate Diploma of Applied Science, Computer Science at Central Metropolitain College of TAFEBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronics and Computer Systems, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronics and Computer Systems at Edith Cowan University
Github Skills (24)
docker-entrypoint9
xnat8
dockerfile8
helm7
segmentation7
ctp7
intelligent7
medical-imaging7
active-learning6
docker6
kubernetes6
computer-vision5
3d5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SydneyResearchTech/charts
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Helm charts for USyd Research infrastructure
Contributions:5 PRs, 93 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
UWA-FoS/docker-mytardis
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
MyTardis implementation using docker
Contributions:27 commits, 57 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
docker-entrypointdockerfilemysqluwadocker
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