Dougal Ballantyne
Technical Advisor at Oracle
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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SeniorDougal Ballantyne is a seasoned cloud and HPC leader with 13 years of recent experience and over two decades in technology, currently advising Oracle Cloud Infrastructure while building and investing in early-stage startups from Seattle. He blends hands-on engineering—contributions to projects like AWS ParallelCluster and leadership roles across AWS (Lambda, CloudFormation, Wavelength, API Gateway, Batch)—with product and strategic thinking to design and deploy large-scale, production systems. Fluent in English and Dutch, he excels at customer-facing technical conversations with senior stakeholders and translating complex protocol and network analysis into pragmatic solutions. Dougal’s background spans telecoms, HPC R&D, and cloud-native infrastructure, and he’s known for pairing energetic, trustworthy leadership with deep operational experience managing infrastructure-as-code and edge services. An unexpected detail: beyond advising and building, he’s an investor and proud dog dad, signaling a founder-friendly, people-oriented approach to technical challenges.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English
Github Skills (10)
cloud-infrastructure10
boto10
aws10
devops9
configuration-management9
aws-cloudformation8
python7
chef-client7
bash7
chef-solo7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-parallelcluster
Jun 2014 - Jun 2017
AWS ParallelCluster is an AWS supported Open Source cluster management tool to deploy and manage HPC clusters in the AWS cloud.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:12 releases, 230 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Dougal's commits primarily focused on enhancing infrastructure and supporting cloud-related features within the AWS ParallelCluster project. Contributions include adding support for proxy configuration using boto.config, enabling the use of an existing VPC security group, and implementing features related to root volume size and EBS volume management. They also worked on general improvements, such as updates for the Chef client and various AMI updates.
aws-cloudhpc-applicationsclusterscluster-managementhpc-clusters
dougalb/lambda-authorizer-basic-auth
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
A Serverless Application that creates Lambda function to use as an authorizer in Amazon API Gateway for HTTP Basic Auth and a DynamoDB tables for users.
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 6 months
api-gatewayserverlessaws-lambdaawslambda
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