Donavan White
Principal Software Engineer - DevOps Lead at Lunar Outpost
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDonavan White is a Principal Software Engineer and DevOps lead based in Denver with 14 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems across Azure, AWS, and GCP. He blends full-stack development, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes/GCP project management to deliver scalable, production-ready platforms and developer tooling. Donavan has led cloud migrations and introduced DevOps culture at enterprise scale, while also consulting to streamline client workflows and accelerate contract approval using fine-tuned LLMs. His recent focus on Agentic AI bridges distributed systems and automation to build AI-driven orchestrators that make contextual decisions and integrate with complex environments. Comfortable moving between code, architecture, and operations, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong communication and project management to drive cross-functional outcomes. Outside of full-time roles he consults directly with businesses, favoring upfront, free consultations to ensure practical, long-term value.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Canyon View High SchoolMicrosoft Certified Professional (MCP) Network+ A+ Information Technology, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Network+ A+ Information Technology at Southwest Technical College
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Github Skills (19)
api9
activerecord6
precompiled6
routes6
activemodel6
ruby-on-rails6
http6
sqlite6
ruby6
console6
upstream4
capistrano4
puma4
plugin4
js-client4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Digi-Cazter/omniship
Mar 2012 - Dec 2022
Shipping API for common shipping couriers
Contributions:255 commits, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 10 years 10 months
couriersapishipping-apishipping
Digi-Cazter/test_repo
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:58 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 1 day
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