Donovan Ellison
Security Engineer at Ontra
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonovan Ellison is a Security Engineer in Portland, Oregon with nine years of hands-on experience strengthening cloud and containerized infrastructure. He has driven measurable improvements—cutting Terraform approval times to under 10 minutes, orchestrating automated dependency updates across 100+ repos, and implementing egress filtering that helped achieve HITRUST compliance. Comfortable architecting Policy-as-Code at scale, he enforced CIS standards across hundreds of GCP projects and built developer-friendly tools (including a Flask app for temporary egress rules) that saved thousands of engineering hours. Donovan blends site reliability and cloud security expertise from roles at apree health and Zapproved, and brings a practical focus on reducing lead time and automating toil. Outside of work he trains in Jiu Jitsu, skateboards, and explores the PNW, reflecting a persistent appetite for challenge and continuous learning.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science University Honors, Bachelor of Science Computer Science University Honors at Portland State UniversityAssociate of Science Computer Science, Associate of Science Computer Science at Portland Community College
Github Skills (10)
aws6
kubernetes4
steampipe3
postgresql-fdw3
gitlab3
cli2
postgresql2
sql2
golang2
gitpod2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dvaneson/dvaneson-website
Jul 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
dvaneson/fresh-jrs-converter
Sep 2020 - Mar 2023
Convert résumés / CVs between FRESH and JSON Resume formats.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
json-resumeatsformatscvsjson
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