Marcus Dillavou
Technical Advisor at Help Lightning
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolMarcus Dillavou is a seasoned technology leader and engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling software teams and products across healthcare and enterprise collaboration. As Technical Advisor and former VP of Engineering at Help Lightning, he combines hands-on architecture and engineering leadership to close critical gaps in healthcare technology through Yunara Life. He founded and built early-stage product and engineering at VIPAAR, bringing entrepreneurial grit and deep full-stack experience from UAB to civic tech with Code for Birmingham. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, he pairs an MEng in Sustainable Smart Cities with practical systems delivery, often translating complex domain requirements into pragmatic, deployable solutions. Colleagues know him as a Lead Architect/Engineer who balances strategic vision with frequent hands-on coding and architecture work.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Sustainable Smart Cities, Master of Engineering - MEng, Sustainable Smart Cities at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Github Skills (90)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
VIPAAR/terraform-modules
Apr 2019 - Aug 2025
Various reusable modules for Hashicorp Terraform
Contributions:43 PRs, 64 pushes, 27 tags in 6 years 4 months
hashicorp-terraformhashicorpreusable-modulesterraformterraform-provider
VIPAAR/terraform-aws-rds-postgres
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
Creates a PostgreSQL database instance in AWS RDS
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 tags in 2 years 3 months
database-instanceaurorapostgresql-databaserdsaws-rds
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