Summary
Eliza D is a Lead Automation and DevOps Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience enabling developer and operations teams across Virginia Commonwealth University to deliver faster and more reliably. She designs and maintains enterprise platforms—centrally deploying the university’s first Kubernetes environment across OpenShift, OKD, and VMware Tanzu—while supporting Linux systems, monitoring, logging, and virtualization. Comfortable bridging hands-on sysadmin work and platform strategy, she previously managed Red Hat/CentOS/Rocky systems and VMware infrastructure and has a background in network administration and web development. Based in Richmond, VA, she combines a biological-sciences foundation with an IT degree, bringing a methodical, interdisciplinary approach to automation and self-service tooling.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology at Colorado State University-Global Campus
Radford High School
Biological Sciences, Biological Sciences at University of Mary Washington