Rory Dunn
Principal Software Engineer at Aperture Space
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRory Dunn is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient cloud platforms and developer tooling, currently leading platform engineering at Aperture Space. He combines a product and business mindset with hands-on DevOps expertise—managing AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability to maintain enterprise-grade uptime and reduce costs (notably saving ~$180k annually during a past acquisition integration). Rory progressed from application development and CI pipelines to senior platform leadership at The Muse, and brings a background in mechanical engineering and process improvement that informs pragmatic, system-level thinking. Based in Portland, Maine, he thrives on scoping ambiguous problems, automating repeatable work, and elevating teams’ monitoring and debugging capabilities. An avid learner and collaborator, he quietly bridges engineering and operations to deliver measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at University of MaineUniversity of Hull
English
Github Skills (21)
flask6
tornado6
logger6
docker-compose5
python5
jinja25
hook5
drupal5
json4
handlers4
logging4
datadog4
quart3
amazon-web-services1
terraform1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rorydunn/rorydunn.github.io
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 8 months
rorydunn/insurance-marketing
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 8 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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