Lloyd Cotten
DevOps Engineer at Hawk
Carthage, Missouri, United States
Summary
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SeniorLloyd Cotten is a seasoned DevOps engineer with over two decades in software, cloud, and systems engineering and 13 years of focused industry experience. He has driven cloud-native operations and infrastructure scalability at organizations including Moody's and CATYLIST, with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, observability, and security. Lloyd excels at bridging development and operations to deliver reliable, automated pipelines and resilient platform services that align with business goals. He values collaboration and continuous improvement, often mentoring teams to adopt best practices for monitoring, incident response, and infrastructure-as-code. Now contributing to Hawk, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems thinking and developer empathy that helps reduce operational friction. Outside of formal roles he has a long history of full-stack and architecture work, which gives him a strong appreciation for both application design and deployment realities.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (93)
command-line-interface10
cjs10
xpath10
monitoring10
tds10
ava10
golang10
istanbul10
json10
kafka10
agent10
argv10
code-coverage10
time-series10
codemod10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lloydcotten/common-mq
Jul 2013 - Dec 2017
Contributions:82 commits, 37 PRs, 38 pushes in 4 years 5 months
apinode-jsmessage-queueprovidersclean
lloydcotten/docker-node-mettools
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 11 months
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