Summary
Dwight Townsend is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and automation across startups, utilities, and research institutions in California. He has led platform work at Rune Labs to integrate multi-modal brain data for therapy development and driven migrations and serverless deployments for large clients like Pacific Gas and Electric using Terraform, Lambda, ECS, and EKS. Dwight is AWS-certified and skilled at translating legacy pipelines into Terraform Cloud–backed CI/CD, balancing strong technical delivery with cross-functional collaboration. Equally comfortable in hands-on system administration and modern infrastructure-as-code, he has a track record of moving research clusters into elastic, cost-effective AWS architectures. Colleagues note his pragmatic curiosity—“I do a little of everything”—which helps him bridge academia-grade research needs and production-grade reliability.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo