Devin Ford
Senior Platform Engineer
North Branford, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolDevin Ford is a Senior Platform Engineer with six years of experience building scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and platform services, currently focused on public website infrastructure at Datadog. AWS Certified and fluent in Terraform, Python, Node.js, and Go, he designs serverless and containerized systems that prioritize automation, reliability, and canary-enabled CI/CD. He has a track record of leading teams to deliver globally available projects and reducing operational toil through tested infrastructure-as-code. Devin’s background spans hands-on frontend work for client sites to building core backend infrastructure for high-traffic consumer finance products, giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective. He brings experience from both agency-style client delivery and large-scale platform engineering, which helps him translate developer needs into platform features. Outside of core roles, his earlier public safety telecommunicator experience underpins a calm, decisive approach to incident response and high-pressure operational decisions.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development HTML CSS Javascript React Node.js, Full Stack Web Development HTML CSS Javascript React Node.js at Zero To Mastery AcademyHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at East Haven High School
Github Skills (34)
monitoring10
hugo10
observability10
parser10
router10
vector10
pipeline10
datadog10
stream-processing10
rust10
high-performance10
data-pipeline10
documentation10
nunjucks8
eleventy8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
devindford/devto_rising
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Displays the articles on the rise from dev.to
Contributions:64 PRs, 75 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 10 months
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devindford/Append_PR_Comment
Feb 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:13 releases, 42 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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