Robert D
Principal, Cloud SW Eng at Northern Trust Corporation
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert D is a Principal Cloud Software Engineer based in Chicago with over a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native, serverless, and containerized platforms for both startups and large financial institutions. He specializes in cloud solutions architecture, DevSecOps, SRE practices, and platform engineering across AWS and multi-cloud environments, with hands-on expertise in Envoy, Nomad, Vault, Terraform, and container orchestration. At Telnyx he helped scale a global communications backbone and standardized infrastructure-as-code and traffic management patterns that enabled zero-downtime deployments and global GSLB. Now at Northern Trust he focuses on bringing those scalable, secure automation patterns into financial-grade platforms. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic builder who mentors teams, authors clear architectural decisions, and blends deep operational experience with a developer-first mindset. Outside of work he publishes tooling and container images under robwdux, reflecting a continual curiosity for practical open-source solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Information Systems Technology Computer Science Minor, B.S. Information Systems Technology Computer Science Minor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Github Skills (85)
terraform10
infrastructure10
terraform-module10
alpine-linux10
githubactions10
terraform-cloud10
linux10
hashicorp10
vault10
graph10
terragrunt10
hcl10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
robwdux/docker-alpine-init
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
robwdux/docker-alpine-base
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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