Summary
Don Capito is a Senior DevOps/DevSecOps engineer with over a decade of hands-on cloud and infrastructure leadership and a 30-year IT background that grounds his work in operational pragmatism. He has designed and delivered AWS-native Trusted Research Environments and eConsent platforms for global research organisations, led cloud migrations across AWS, Azure and GCP, and built scalable HPC and EKS solutions for enterprise and biotech environments. Comfortable both architecting IaC with Terraform/Ansible and instrumenting observability with Prometheus/Grafana, he routinely automates secure CI/CD pipelines and secrets management for regulated and high‑availability systems. Don has a track record of mentoring teams, upskilling engineers, and cutting operating costs through automation and environment lifecycle management. Based in Huntingdonshire, he combines academic engineering training with practical fintech, retail and public-sector experience, and is known for taking ownership of end-to-end delivery from PoC to production. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often bridges research requirements and production constraints to make sensitive data platforms both usable and auditable.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering at Mapúa University