Summary
Dwane Pottratz is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, building, and optimizing cloud and CI/CD platforms across Azure, AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and VMware. He blends deep Linux kernel and realtime systems expertise from long tenures at Intel with practical customer-facing solutions engineering—authoring infrastructure-as-code, performance characterizations, and cost-optimization guidance that accelerate deployments and sales opportunities. A proven leader in CI/CD and DevOps, he has repeatedly refactored and scaled build pipelines to support thousands of kernel tests and rapid release cadences, and he creates reproducible development clouds and training materials to democratize complex setups. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, Dwane pairs technical rigor with strong communication skills and a track record of turning pre-sales concepts into production-ready proofs of concept.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Oregon State University
BSCS, Computer Science, BSCS, Computer Science at Portland State University
Linux Kernel, Linux Kernel at The Linux Foundation
English